Rose is a 78-year-old who lives in a shelter for trans women in Singapore.
In the video, she talks of her marriage falling apart after her mother-in-law discovered she was a transgender woman, and persuaded her then-husband to leave her.
Homeless, she had to become a sex worker in the '70s to survive, before she started living in a shelter for transgender people.
"People think that trans people do sex work in order to affirm their gender identity as a woman... to have sex with as many men as possible. That's not true. It's for survival -- this is the only industry that doesn't question our gender identity," said June Chua, founder of the shelter, in the video.
The video was shot as a promo for the upcoming Pink Dot LGBT event, to be held in Singapore in June.
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