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Title: Transgender and safer sex
Post by: SandraJane on August 14, 2012, 08:40:06 PM
Post by: SandraJane on August 14, 2012, 08:40:06 PM
examiner.com
Transgender and safer sex
By: BEAR A-M Rodgers | August 14, 2012
http://www.examiner.com/article/transgender-and-safer-sex?cid=rss (http://www.examiner.com/article/transgender-and-safer-sex?cid=rss)
It is a scary topic even among friends, mention sex and the titillated whispers start but trying to discuss safer sex practices ends the conversation. In the Knoxville area there is a stigma about discussing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and ignorance about why the more accurate term is Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Almost an attitude of "if we ignore it we won't get it" abounds.
Among those who have not been raised in sexually oppressive communities there is a much higher awareness of reality on the subject. STIs do not discriminate, HIV does not skip cisgender heterosexuals in preference for gay men or transgender prostitutes, lesbians are not immune from any STIs by virtue, a wedding ring is not a shield of protection from disease, and abstinence-only sex education in schools actually leads to unsafe
experimentation by youth.
Transgender and safer sex
By: BEAR A-M Rodgers | August 14, 2012
http://www.examiner.com/article/transgender-and-safer-sex?cid=rss (http://www.examiner.com/article/transgender-and-safer-sex?cid=rss)
It is a scary topic even among friends, mention sex and the titillated whispers start but trying to discuss safer sex practices ends the conversation. In the Knoxville area there is a stigma about discussing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and ignorance about why the more accurate term is Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Almost an attitude of "if we ignore it we won't get it" abounds.
Among those who have not been raised in sexually oppressive communities there is a much higher awareness of reality on the subject. STIs do not discriminate, HIV does not skip cisgender heterosexuals in preference for gay men or transgender prostitutes, lesbians are not immune from any STIs by virtue, a wedding ring is not a shield of protection from disease, and abstinence-only sex education in schools actually leads to unsafe
experimentation by youth.