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[–]jet199 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

In some US cities 50% of the transwomen have HIV because they do sex work (for fetish reasons not poverty). They have higher rates than gays.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

they do sex work (for fetish reasons not poverty)

Holy shit that connection somehow evaded me all these years. That creates so many consequences. Like yes they have been invading women's spaces and feminist spaces because it "validates" their fetish. They invade the word "lesbian" for the same reasons.

For some reason i have considered the prostitution angle to be a separate issue due to them being trainwrecks of human beings.

This essentially means all problems they have are self created. What treatment could be available in terms of helping a person to deal deal with gender identity disorder is now branded as "hate" or something similar.

Nearly all violence inflicted upon MtFs is a result of prostitution which they knowingly go into because it "validates" them.

[–]Datachost 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

There was a recent case in Mexico (IIRC) where a trans politician interrupted a discussion on prostitution to go on a diatribe about how they liked to be a prostitute and were proud of being a whore

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Watch news reports on it even when they are trying to be supportive it comes out. There are some relatively "normal" trans people who don't seek the spot light and want to be left alone, but almost everyone in the media is an attention "whore" quite literally. It's a weird exhibitionism fetish and when they talk about how trans people are getting murdered a massive rates, like 99% of it is prostitution and drug related. Turns out high af gang bangers don't like "surprises" from their prostitutes.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like being gay and contracting HIV with extra steps. Just sayin.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think that's specifically for prostitutes. The overall rate is about 16% vs. about 18% for homosexually-active men.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

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42% is a good bit less than 50%. Still, it's in line with the rate for black gay men, which is also about 1 in 2. https://www.hiv.gov/blog/half-of-black-gay-men-and-a-quarter-of-latino-gay-men-projected-to-be-diagnosed-within-their-lifetime

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In some US cities 50% of the transwomen have HIV

What I actually said.

What the link says.

HIV prevalence by city was 58% in Atlanta, 33% in Los Angeles, 45% in New Orleans, 52% in New York City, 51% in Philadelphia, 41% in San Francisco and 21% in Seattle.

Stop being annoying