Today @tgeuorg.bsky.social posted a list of names of trans people whose lives were lost to violence over the last year. Out of those whose occupation was known, most were sx workers.

If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.

If you haven’t already, make sure you read this important Big Issue article on people, particularly women and disabled people, being driven into sex work by poverty, low pay, and the benefits system.

Is sex work a trade union issue? Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective. 27/11/2025 7-8:30PM Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...

We recently spoke to @bigissue.com about the results of our recent research survey, exploring the reasons why people entered and remained in sex work. You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-... (1/9)

Rights not rescue! Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation. Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe! Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament

A survey of 172 sex workers found that 76% of sex workers started in the industry due to financial need, with 77% identifying as disabled or living with a long-term health condition. Here is what two women told me of their experiences. @decrimnow.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

We are horrified but not surprised by this. No one connected to the Magdalene laundries should be involved in making law on any subject, let alone trying to push laws which endanger women who are doing sex work. Sex workers say no to the Nordic Model.

We are so delighted to see Catherine Connolly elected! She has consistently advocated for the health and safety of sex workers in Ireland during her time in the Dáil. While we will miss her as a TD, we know she will be a president for all on the island, especially the most marginalised.

Launching the bill yesterday at the Red Umbrella Film Festival, Ruth Coppinger said “Reducing demand was a key aim of the 2017 Sexual Offences Act — this incontrovertibly has not worked, as the Minister for Justice himself admitted after the review of the legislation was published.

Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.

We’ve sent an open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to tell him that the the government must act urgently to prevent increasing numbers of women being driven into sex work by poverty and financial need. (1/6)

📢 We have signed an open letter, led by @decrimnow.bsky.social , calling on the UK Government to act on the poverty crisis driving more people, especially women, into s@x work.  Read more:  https://spectra-london.org.uk/2025/09/15/women-in-poverty-sx-work-spectra-open-letter/

Thank you Maggie for being such an amazing and consistent ally to sex workers! We hugely appreciated the opportunity to come and speak in Scottish Parliament alongside our friends from Scotland for Decrim, National Ugly Mugs and the Street Workers’ Collective Ireland.

Our amazing colleagues Laura and Victoria in Scotland for Decrim were on the BBC’s Scottish news podcast Scotcast this week, speaking about why sex workers oppose Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic Model bill. Please listen and share, it’s a powerful episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great article from our colleagues in the English Collective of Prostitutes about how criminalisation and poverty/financial need trap women in sex work. The government could solve this by decriminalising sex work and ensuring that our social security system is fit for purpose.

Trans people are overrepresented in sex work in large part because of the discrimination and abuse they face in other workplaces and wider society. This EHRC guidance will hugely amplify that. Please write to your MP to demand democratic oversight of this harmful guidance. #NoTransSegregation

We were pleased to speak to Lauren recently for this important article on how the criminalisation of sex workers traps them in sex work, giving them a criminal record which makes it much more difficult to get another job. The government must take urgent action to ban prostitutes’ cautions.

Don’t miss this interview with our colleagues in Scotland on why they oppose Ash Regan’s proposed bill to introduce the Nordic Model (client criminalisation) in Scotland. Thank you Neil for listening to sex workers 🙏

It’s absolutely outrageous that @ameliagentleman.bsky.social has written this article and hasn’t included a single word from sex worker-led organisations or outreach charities that work with sex workers who oppose these proposals. Where is the balance? Where are the voices of actual sex workers?

“Sex workers know that only full decriminalisation will protect our safety, health, & human rights, giving us the power to choose when and how we work.” Read more about our campaign to oppose the Nordic Model in Scotland: t.co/JMgYyBDNsb

Decriminalisation of sex work makes people safer.

Time and time again our arguments for decriminalisation are misrepresented as “sex work is empowering!”. Selling sexual labour is a means of survival not empowerment. And it’s often a dangerous one. Criminalisation makes it more dangerous.

The criminalisation of sex work puts sex workers in danger. It is against the law for sex workers in the U.K. to work together for safety. Sex workers need decriminalisation & we need it now. Use our tool to email your MP and demand full decrim. decrim-email.netlify.app

Sex workers do not have to prove that they love their jobs in order to deserve workers’ rights