New York lawmakers are set to review an anti-loitering bill, commonly known as the ‘walking while trans’ ban which allowed police to target trans people in public, with the aim of repealing it.
According to LGBTQ Nation, the law was created in the 1970s to ‘prohibit loitering for the purposes of prostitution’, but was frequently used as an excuse to harass people who were perceived to be transgender, as well as people of colour.