Cis-and-trans women and gender diverse survival-based sex workers are a sub-population of Calgary, Alberta’s marginalized communities that are underrepresented in public health policy research. Forest Lawn is a geographically and socially isolated neighbourhood from most emergency health services in Calgary and is locally known for its higher incidence in crime, overdose deaths and poverty. This neighbourhood is the location of one of Calgary’s oldest sex work strolls (where people buy and sell sexual services in exchange for money) and to date, has never been exclusively included or examined in formal research. The focus of this thesis was to expand on previous and ongoing research with sex workers in Canada that has identified sex workers’ experiences of structural violence and feelings of being excluded from health care. Using a critical ethnographic inquiry, this study aimed to describe sex workers’ experiences in Forest Lawn and answer the following question: what do Forest Lawn’s women and gender diverse survival-based sex workers want health care providers to know about providing more compassionate care? The student researcher committed to five months of community outreach with a local sex work nonprofit and engaged five unique participants in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis through a critical and intersectional feminist disability lens led to the conclusions that survival-based sex workers in Forest Lawn experience structural violence, which is exacerbated by the partial criminalization of the sex work industry. It was also found that in order to challenge the pervasive culture within health care that further marginalizes survival sex workers experiences, providers should aim to incorporate trauma-informed practice into their framework of care.