Based on interviews and ethnography, this article analyzes how racialized gender policing in public space and service organizations deprives transgender women of survival resources. Although transgender women are disproportionately the targets of enforcement, most studies of the criminalization of homelessness, drug use, sex work and migration exclude their experiences. Studies that do include transgender women often focus narrowly on anti-prostitution laws and enforcement, overlooking other laws and policies that contribute to criminalization and poverty. This article analyzes the confluence between policing of transgender women’s identities and survival strategies in public space and in agencies meant to serve poor people (including shelters, drug treatment facilities and transitional living programs). Laws regulating access to public space combine with rules regulating gender in service organizations to both criminalize and create transgender poverty. More broadly, the carceral production of transgender poverty demonstrates that criminalization is not only a consequence but also a cause of both poverty and inequality.

基于访谈和人种学，本文分析了在公共场所和服务机构中进行种族歧视的社会性别警务如何剥夺跨性别女性的生存资源。尽管跨性别妇女是执法对象，但大多数关于无家可归，吸毒，性工作和移民的刑事定罪研究都没有涉及她们的经历。确实包括跨性别妇女在内的研究往往只关注反卖淫法和执法，却忽视了其他有助于定罪和贫穷的法律和政策。本文分析了在公共空间和旨在为穷人服务的机构（包括庇护所，毒品治疗设施和过渡性生活计划）中，变性妇女身份的治安与生存策略之间的融合。管制进入公共场所的法律与管制服务组织中的性别的规则相结合，将犯罪定为犯罪并造成了跨性别贫困。从更广泛的意义上讲，跨性别贫困的痛苦生产表明，将犯罪定罪不仅是贫困和不平等的后果，而且是其原因。