AP post on USAID cuts backfires as critics question taxpayer-funded Nepal transgender jobs

An AP video about transgender aid workers in Nepal turning to sex work after USAID cuts sparked fierce conservative backlash over taxpayer funding priorities.

This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her. Rubi Lama once came here not as a sex worker, but as an aid worker who helped sex workers.