This article analyzes the effect of black trans women's ethnic/racial condition in the female trans sex market in the city of Cali, Colombia. The study looked at sex work from an intersectional perspective, with the contributions of Black Feminism, articulating race as skin color, sex/gender self-identity, social class and age group in the production and consumption of sex services offered by not-biologically-born women who sometimes work as hairdressers. We argue that the "exoticism of black bodies" as erotic capital gives a high value to the "wellendowed male" or "active" black woman with a "potent penis", in the confluence of clients whose sexual fantasy valorizes a phallic woman, and lower class male-born black youths who reconstruct their sex/gender identities and find a labor niche in the sex market.
Transgender women; sexualization; racialization; sex work market; gender