Critics block health talk on transsexuality

[LostInTime]

Cleveland dot com
Regina McEnery

The talk was planned Monday as part of AIDS Awareness Week at Ohio State University's Mansfield campus. A nurse was supposed to discuss how to better serve the transgender population, one of the highest-risk groups for HIV.

But at the 11th hour, the local health department canceled the talk amid outcry from a growing chorus of conservatives in Richland County offended by the content and what they called the public agency's role in promoting it. The county agency arranged for the talk along with two other sponsors.

[cindianna_jones]

Bigotry and fear are a deadly combination.  We won't listen and we won't look because it is EVIL. 

[LostInTime]

Exactly. The message they put out is that they care about HIV, as long as the person is not T.

[Hazumu]

Westboro Baptist Church endorses AIDS as the best way to rid God's world of an infestation of [homosexuals], and privately, so do a lot of other bigots...

Karen