Billie Lee, a star of Vanderpump Rules, shared her experiences on the Oldish podcast regarding her struggles in the job market as a transgender woman. After moving to Los Angeles and applying for hospitality jobs, she faced discrimination despite her qualifications, with employers unwilling to hire her once they realized her gender identity. To support herself, she turned to sex work, a reality for many trans people due to high unemployment. Lee now views her time in sex work as empowering, reflecting on the societal fetishization of trans individuals and the complexities of her experiences.
They would love my résumé [CV] because I have all this serving experience from college, then they would see me and wouldn't hire me.
Because our unemployment rate is so high, a lot of you lean on sex work... because we are all so fetishized and over-sexualized.
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