It is hard to believe that Indonesian transgendered sex workers are getting hotter.

Joya Patiha, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bandung were affecting her income as a sex worker a decade ago.

The rainy season was lasting longer across the West Java province, winds were stronger and in some particularly bad years Patiha lost up to 80% of her earnings.

Trans women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike.

Not surprisingly, the Independent only points to a survey including present day weather patterns and not an actual study to support their news report. This is due to data being unavailable to support this article, but facts are not how climate alarmists operate. This is likely a click-bait article in order to drive traffic to the website or a way to avoid reporting about the elephant in the room (i.e. the real reason for the sex workers being in trouble).

If Indonesian transgendered street walkers are in trouble, it has little to do with climate change and more to do with the country’s state religion: Islam. Indonesia is a Muslim majority country and last year, Reuters reported a new law was enacted by the country’s parliament that is clearly geared to target the country’s LGBTQ community. Even Indonesia’s only transgendered lawmaker openly warned that the statute could encourage hatred of gays and lesbians, transgendered people, and heterosexual couples who are unmarried.

According to Reuters, with the rising acceptance of more orthodox Islamic practices persecution of the country’s LGBTQ community has increased as well. So while it is comforting to note that climate change is hurting the incomes of Indonesian trans prostitutes, the Independent won’t consider that their customers might have become more pious or have been intimidated from continuing to purchase the sex worker’s services resulting from heightened societal pressure.

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