TRANSGENDERUK Health Security Agency includes transwomen in statistics of women infected with monkeypox

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Health officials have been accused of sacrificing science to political correctness by including trans women in official figures for females infected with monkeypox.

After last spring’s outbreak of the disease, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) started publishing ‘epidemiological overviews’ detailing the total number of infections to date.

The latest, published on December 20, states that of 3,706 ‘confirmed or highly probable cases… where gender information was available, 3,653 were men and 53 were women’.

Nowhere within the 31 epidemiological overviews that the UKHSA has published since June is it revealed that the figures for women also include cases affecting trans women.

A technical briefing, published in September, states: ‘Of 45 cases who were women aged 16 and above, 16 out of 44 (36 per cent) with available information were transgender women.’

Essentially their political correctness grossly undermined the statistics. Half of me suspects that they actually were trying everything they could to find more infections in women because certain segments of the media didn’t like the optics the reality of the distribution of infections was causing - some were even claiming that those saying it was spreading amongst gay men were spreading homophobic slanders and stigmatising gay men.

[–]LtGreenCo 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome to the new scientific method, where we come up with conclusions first and then manipulate the evidence to fit.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Homophobic or not, denying the fact that Monkeypox can be spread very easily from gay sex is a disservice to gay men. It’s not homophobic to warn gay men to be careful who we have sex with. Telling gay men to stop having gay sex at all is homophobic, yes, but telling gay men to practice save sex and to be loyal to their domestic partners isn’t homophobic at all.

[–]Newzok 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hey, we all knew. I was as astounded as anyone how much of a soft stance was taken on this. If you remember, there were even posters that were very sex-positive that said, like, shag away but if you think you got it call this. Clown world. Gays won't riot if you tell them there's a very gay specific illness out there and to be careful for a little bit.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We can shut the world down for a year, but don’t you dare tell the gays to maybe lay off the chemsex bareback orgies! The only thing more insane from an infectious disease control point of view was the way that lockdowns suddenly didn’t matter when BLM were “peacefully protesting”.

[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well yeah. It's really odd what has priority and what doesn't. And when the population in question raises an eyebrow over how it's handled...

I mean, so much here that we discuss seems to come from the same type of policy or rhetoric. Is this another ESG/DEI case? It's rotted its way into every part of government and media?

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“Conservative” government moment.