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* In Indonesia, extreme weather takes toll on trans women * Trans sex workers and buskers often work outside * Floods and heatwaves mean they earn less, need other jobs By Leo Galuh BANDUNG, Indonesia, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - J oya 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...





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