This article addresses migration, gender and prostitution via the analysis of the prostitution trajectories of Ecuadorians transgender living in Lille. The fabrication of the transgender identity, which is inscribe within a « gender emptiness », appears as a process in which different referential universes overlap: homosexuality, prostitution and migration. This process of self-transmutation, of « self-conversion », which is solved within a long identity's work, places transgender in a paradoxical situation: getting anchored in a wished sexual identity that could be become a woman or stay in undefined identity, in which getting closer to his/herself, imposes a necessary rupture with the family and leads towards a life inscribed in marginality and transgression.

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