California prisons to sort by gender identity, self id accepted

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[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wow - sorry you've been waiting so long for EDD - I hope it comes through soon!

I had no idea how corrupt CA politics were until this gendxr shit came along. According to a California housing organization who hired an investigative journalist, Scott Wiener receives money from Gilead Sciences, the pharma company that makes the HIV prophylactic , Truvada.

Gilead Sciences is also the sponsor of the transgender march on Washington DC.

I just saw a chart some guy on Twitter made about Gavin Newsom's ties to the Pelosis and the Getty family; the Twitter used alleges that some mutual deal made them rich.

I think the Newsom recall petition will gain steam again. I'm going to sign it, and write Gavin Newsom a long email explaining why. Barbaric.

[–]WrongToy[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ah yes, Truvada, the first antiviral that cleared viral loads so they "couldn't be transmissible during sex!" Ah yes, you can't imagine what happened in the porn industry when TIMs with the virus started saying, "Baby I'm clean you're just being transphobic!"

The HIV rate in San Francisco is 30 percent higher in TIMs than gay men! Who knows if they're taking their meds any more than any woman's supposed to know their dick is somehow magically inert at all times and that all inert dicks are magically unharmful? We're all supposed to take people's word for it who have more than their share of personality disorders and other psychiatric ailments?

Yep, otherwise we're just "denying their humanity."

This is the world in which Weiner lives.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Did you see the report on TiMs in California prisons that I posted? TiMs in CA prisons have a very high rate of HIV - so the incarcerated women they might rape don't just have to worry about pregnancy, but a lifelong, incurable and very expensive to treat disease too.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not just in CA either. In the US, the HIV rate amongst TIMs is sky high.

In the USA in 2018, TIMs age 20-29 accounted for more than one-quarter of all new HIV diagnoses amongst males of that age group in the USA. Seems a bit high for a group that's less than one percent of the population, no? (The CDC estimates that 1 million people of both sexes in the US today identify as trans.)

In 2018, the largest percentage (27%) of diagnoses of HIV infection was for transgender MTF adults and adolescents aged 25–29 years, followed by the percentage (25%) for transgender MTF adults and adolescents aged 20– 24 years.

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics

A 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis found that an estimated 14% of transgender women (TIMs) have HIV. By race/ethnicity, an estimated 44% of black/African American transgender women, 26% of Hispanic/Latina transgender women, and 7% of white transgender women have HIV.

Among the 3 million HIV testing events reported to CDC in 2017, the percentage of transgender people who received a new HIV diagnosis was 3 times the national average.

However, trans identified people who have penetrative sex with men are highly unlikely to get tested for HIV:

Nearly two thirds of transgender women and men surveyed by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in 2014 and 2015 from 28 jurisdictions reported never testing for HIV.

There are numerous prevention challenges that may impact the HIV health outcomes for some transgender people. These include:

Certain behaviors and socioeconomic factors can affect outcomes, such as having multiple sex partners, anal or vaginal sex without protection (like a condom or medicine to prevent or treat HIV), and sharing needles or syringes to inject hormones or drugs. Additional factors include commercial sex work, mental health issues, incarceration, homelessness, unemployment, and high levels of substance misuse compared to the general population.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/transgender/index.html