In the 20 years that she’s been a sex worker, Tyler Cuddahy says she’s mostly worked on the streets in Vancouver, and for a few years online. But now, for her own safety, she sees clients at home, where she can assess them through a chain-locked door before letting them in.
Risk is still a major concern, she says.
“As a trans adult I work more with the straight population — the guys who are questioning their sexuality. My last one left me pretty scarred,” said Cuddahy, describing how she says her last client started beating her after he “realized he had to go back home to his wife.”
“He left me pretty much
