Candace Owens defends Tennessee’s law forcing HIV-positive sex workers to register as violent offenders for life, calling it a fair response to alleged nondisclosure. The ACLU counters, suing over the felony classification targeting a protected disability, warning of housing and employment bans. Owens claims the ACLU prioritizes gender identity over public health, ignoring rising HIV cases while framing the law as politically motivated. The debate exposes tensions between criminalization and civil rights in addressing sex work and HIV stigma. [Automatically generated summary]
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