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HIV-Positive Sex Workers Forced to Register
00:03:41
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| Sex work is real work. | ||
| Sex work is real work. | ||
| That would be horrific. Absolutely horrific if that happened. | ||
| Terrifying if that happened. | ||
| And it totally makes sense that Tennessee, this wonderful state that I live in, passed a law calling that aggravated prostitution. | ||
| Tennessee's law forces convicted sex workers with HIV to register for life as violent sexual offenders. | ||
| Why? Because they are violent sexual offenders. | ||
| You sleep with someone and you don't tell them that you have HIV and That you are HIV positive and you put them at risk. | ||
| There is something wrong with you. | ||
| Well, the ACLU just loves to pick up causes like this. | ||
| And they just tweeted, Breaking news! | ||
| We're suing Tennessee for their aggravated prostitution statute that targets people with HIV with harsh punishment and lifetime sex offender registration. | ||
| This law is unconstitutional and disproportionately affects black and transgender women." | ||
| So if you're reading that tweet and you're understanding it correctly, what they're trying | ||
| to explain to you is actually the oppressors are the victims. | ||
| I know that you knew you had HIV and that you slept with this person who didn't know | ||
| that you had HIV and you could have given them that HIV, but you're the real victim | ||
| in this because who cares if you have HIV? | ||
| And also this is going to disproportionately affect black people and trans people, which | ||
| is them basically saying that black people are the majority of prostitutes and trans | ||
| people are the majority of prostitutes who are carrying HIV. | ||
| That's kind of what they're implying in that tweet. | ||
| They went on to tweet, The law elevates engaging in sex work from a misdemeanor to a felony based on someone's HIV status, a protected disability. | ||
| People who are convicted must register as violent sex offenders for the rest of their lives, restricting their access to housing, employment, and social services. | ||
| Oh my gosh, so sad. | ||
| Lastly, they tweeted, Okay, so you are an HIV-positive man, and you decide that you are going to transition to a woman | ||
| and become a sex worker and you spread your HIV to other people, the ACLU thinks that that | ||
| should not be a felony whatsoever. | ||
| Instead, it should be seen as a disability. And who cares if we didn't inform people that | ||
| you had this disability and you have now completely transformed the rest of their life, potentially | ||
| shortened their life, potentially, depending on when they get the help that they need, | ||
| could be dead, right, if they don't know that they have HIV. | ||
| Totally fine. | ||
| The ACLU says that's fine because we now live in a world where we are trying to turn victims into oppressors and oppressors into victims. | ||
| And then when horrible things happen, the climbing of HIV rates, we say, I don't know | ||
| how this could possibly happen. | ||
| I don't know how all of these terrible things are happening in our society when we have | ||
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Justifying Criminal Sex Workers
00:00:49
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| groups like the ACLU who are receiving billions of dollars in funding to pursue these very | ||
| obscure and demented causes. | ||
| The world is upside down. | ||
| That is what is happening. | ||
| The world is upside down. | ||
| Obviously, I am hopeful that Tennessee will win against this lawsuit. | ||
| As I said, it is bizarre that they even picked it up. | ||
| It is this weird push to not just justify sex work, but now to justify sex workers who | ||
| are behaving like criminals by withholding very important information from the clients | ||
| that they see. | ||
| What made them get around the boardroom table and say, what's the next cause we're going to take up? | ||
| Ah, I've got it. | ||
| People with HIV that want to have sex and earn money. | ||
| That's what we're going to do. We're going to go out and we're going to fight for them. | ||