Sexual Rights of HIV-Positive Transwomen
By Dee Borrego
From U.S. Positive Women's Network
February 13, 2012
http://www.thebody.com/content/65749/sexual-rights-of-hiv-positive-transwomen.htmlI'm puzzled by the question of what the sexual rights of HIV+ transgender women are. To me, as an openly HIV+ transwoman, the answer is as clear as glass. Simply put, our rights to sexuality and sexual expression are the same as any other persons, male or female.
Just because transwomen don't fit into culturally predefined standards for male or female expression or behavior, doesn't mean that we lose the right to have an independent sexual identity. It does, however, mean that society at large will view our sexual rights as being less than their own, by and large, and that the general population sometimes needs to be reminded of what equality for all would really look like. With that in mind, here are some points to illustrate how HIV+ transwomen have right to make the same choices as every other person on the planet.
The number one thing that all women and transwomen share is the right to choice in their own life.
