Candace Owens - The ACLU Is SUING Tennessee Over THIS Law Aired: 2023-10-27 Duration: 04:16 === HIV-Positive Sex Workers Forced to Register (03:41) === [00:00:00] Sex work is real work. [00:00:01] Sex work is real work. [00:00:23] That would be horrific. Absolutely horrific if that happened. [00:00:27] Terrifying if that happened. [00:00:29] And it totally makes sense that Tennessee, this wonderful state that I live in, passed a law calling that aggravated prostitution. [00:00:38] Tennessee's law forces convicted sex workers with HIV to register for life as violent sexual offenders. [00:00:45] Why? Because they are violent sexual offenders. [00:00:48] 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. [00:00:55] There is something wrong with you. [00:00:57] Well, the ACLU just loves to pick up causes like this. [00:01:00] And they just tweeted, Breaking news! [00:01:03] We're suing Tennessee for their aggravated prostitution statute that targets people with HIV with harsh punishment and lifetime sex offender registration. [00:01:14] This law is unconstitutional and disproportionately affects black and transgender women." [00:01:20] So if you're reading that tweet and you're understanding it correctly, what they're trying [00:01:22] to explain to you is actually the oppressors are the victims. [00:01:26] I know that you knew you had HIV and that you slept with this person who didn't know [00:01:30] that you had HIV and you could have given them that HIV, but you're the real victim [00:01:35] in this because who cares if you have HIV? [00:01:38] And also this is going to disproportionately affect black people and trans people, which [00:01:42] is them basically saying that black people are the majority of prostitutes and trans [00:01:46] people are the majority of prostitutes who are carrying HIV. [00:01:50] That's kind of what they're implying in that tweet. [00:01:53] 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. [00:02:03] 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. [00:02:12] Oh my gosh, so sad. [00:02:14] Lastly, they tweeted, Okay, so you are an HIV-positive man, and you decide that you are going to transition to a woman [00:02:38] and become a sex worker and you spread your HIV to other people, the ACLU thinks that that [00:02:45] should not be a felony whatsoever. [00:02:47] Instead, it should be seen as a disability. And who cares if we didn't inform people that [00:02:52] you had this disability and you have now completely transformed the rest of their life, potentially [00:02:58] shortened their life, potentially, depending on when they get the help that they need, [00:03:03] could be dead, right, if they don't know that they have HIV. [00:03:07] Totally fine. [00:03:08] 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. [00:03:15] And then when horrible things happen, the climbing of HIV rates, we say, I don't know [00:03:21] how this could possibly happen. [00:03:22] I don't know how all of these terrible things are happening in our society when we have === Justifying Criminal Sex Workers (00:49) === [00:03:27] groups like the ACLU who are receiving billions of dollars in funding to pursue these very [00:03:34] obscure and demented causes. [00:03:37] The world is upside down. [00:03:39] That is what is happening. [00:03:40] The world is upside down. [00:03:41] Obviously, I am hopeful that Tennessee will win against this lawsuit. [00:03:46] As I said, it is bizarre that they even picked it up. [00:03:48] It is this weird push to not just justify sex work, but now to justify sex workers who [00:03:56] are behaving like criminals by withholding very important information from the clients [00:04:02] that they see. [00:04:04] What made them get around the boardroom table and say, what's the next cause we're going to take up? [00:04:08] Ah, I've got it. [00:04:10] People with HIV that want to have sex and earn money. [00:04:13] That's what we're going to do. We're going to go out and we're going to fight for them.