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Title: Critics block health talk on transsexuality
Post by: LostInTime on May 12, 2007, 08:41:38 AM
Cleveland dot com (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/117895878137400.xml&coll=2)
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.
Title: Re: Critics block health talk on transsexuality
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 12, 2007, 09:58:33 PM
Bigotry and fear are a deadly combination.  We won't listen and we won't look because it is EVIL. 
Title: Re: Critics block health talk on transsexuality
Post by: LostInTime on May 13, 2007, 08:25:44 AM
Exactly. The message they put out is that they care about HIV, as long as the person is not T.

Title: Re: Critics block health talk on transsexuality
Post by: Hazumu on May 13, 2007, 07:46:51 PM
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