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04-01-2007 #21
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Originally Posted by backthen
Interesting point, though. Be a good study.
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04-01-2007 #22Originally Posted by whatsupwithat
1- fade into the shadows/crowd
2- not let anyone know you're trans if you can help it
3- remove as much information as possible from the public record et al
Then I don't see how alot of girls, can be taken into a study's consideration.
That- and if we are talking ts universally, but not exclusive to tgirls... then one can not do much but wonder how FtMs fit into the picture/studies/etc on these topics (I guess they easily get forgotten in the realm of trans issues). If anyone has a better chance at doing stealth (or close to it), its the ftms because its so much easier for them to "look the part so to speak"- I have yet to see a ftm that didn't pass after merely being on T long enough... regardless the age they "start at"- with tgirls, if you start late enough I highly doubt E will be enough.
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04-01-2007 #23
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Originally Posted by SarahG
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04-01-2007 #24
Everyone knows that the rate of transmission of HIV is superhigh in the transgender community.
People need to get REAL........
What causes MOST people to get HIV is their own PERSONAL choices.......
Unless personal behavior gets modified nothing will change.
The stats dont lie.
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04-02-2007 #25
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Re: HIV/STD issues within the transgendered community
Originally Posted by whatsupwithat
I suspect most of those in the study were streetwalkers, not higher-end escorts. All of those cities have a large percentage of TS streetwalkers.
Just a normal guy looking for a normal girl.
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04-12-2007 #26
To stay on the subject: A word to the wise
I have been dating TS girls in Los Angeles in San Francisco for more than 15yrs now. Many of them have been "sex workers" especially in the begining. I have many friends, too many friends, that have passed away under the label "complications due to AIDS/HIV infection". Some of them we never knew were infected until they got very sick. With the stigma put on this disease by the government, society in general and especially the ignorant that this is the modern plague and often times people with HIV are treated like lepers, so it is no wonder people with the disease do not reveal the fact that they are infected. If you survived by selling your body for sex and you knew that if you reveal the fact that you have HIV your income would plummet perhaps so much that you would become homeless and an outcast, would you reveal this information?? That is a hard decision to make honestly. We can sit up here on our High Horse of Morals and say "of course I would reveal it" but most of us have no idea what it feels like to be transgendered and maybe even immigrant with no documentation estranged from your family and thinking that prostitution is your only way to survive, I think it becomes a psychological torture within and perhaps these individuals come to the conclusion "Fuck it! It's me or them and I have to survive so I am not gonna worry about it". Maybe that is not right but until something can be done to make services and education more accessible that is how it will continue.
ANd for the people who patronize the "sex workers" one word of advice, many many more girls and guys have this disease than is reported in those statistics, sometimes the person who is infected is the one you would never in a million years suspect, your best freind, your brother or sister, your co worker or boss, your son or daughter, rich,poor, white, black, asian, hispanic, healthy looking people even. Some of the very young (18-23yr old) TS, some of the most gorgeous TS you will see in Los ANgeles, or in the world are infected with HIV (I know they are freinds of mine) so YOU MUST ASSUME THAT EVERYONE HAS HIV and act accordingly with that knowledge if you wish to not become infected yourself . God Bless all of you and take personal responsibility for your action and your life!!
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04-13-2007 #29Originally Posted by peggygee
I think this is borne out by observing that the stats in the report originally quoted are 9-10 years old. I'd like to see some up-to-date stats so we can establish what the trends are but there just isn't enough research being done in this field.
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04-13-2007 #30
I would like to say that IMO anyone practising unsafe sex is not only a danger to themselves but a danger to everyone around them. I also notice that recently a new Thailand-based TS website has appeared which features a lot of bareback anal sex. I really can't deplore this enough. This is about vulnerable young women in the Third World, often desperate for money, being asked--sorry coerced--to play Russian roulette with their lives so rich western men can get a thrill. It's disgusting. Human exploitation has not been eradicated, it has simply been exported.
Let's make no mistake about this either: HIV/AIDS has not gone away and though treatment methods and life expectencies have radically improved since the disease appeared as yet THERE IS NO CURE.
BTW MystiqueEvolution it's unacceptable that anyone should be stigmatised because of their gender. FWIW I've seen some pretty ugly things happen when AIDS and ignorance collide and you have my sympathy.