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New York’s Notorious “Walking While Trans” Law Has Finally Been Repealed
Feb. 22, 2021
TS Candii speaks last September at a rally against police brutality toward LGBTQ people at NYC s legendary Stonewall Inn.
Courtesy of TS Candii
TS Candii moved to New York City from Tennessee more than two years ago. She was looking for a better life as a Black trans woman. “I heard New York was a more progressive state that stood up for the TGNC [trans and gender nonconforming] community and that I was going to be equal,” she says.
But shortly after she moved here, in June 2018, she stepped briefly outside of the Bronx shelter near Monroe Avenue she was living in at the time to have a cigarette. Then, she alleges, two cops pulled up and beckoned her. When she walked over to them, she says, they accused her of soliciting sex and then told her they would arrest her on New York State penal code section 240.37 unless she gave them oral sex. Which she did, she says, not wanting to go to