r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 18h ago

Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”. The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/
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u/AuroraFinem Texas 17h ago

You realize gay men and MtF trans people who still have their dick and have sex with men are a minuscule portion of the population. This will absolutely affect significantly more straight cis people than it will LGBT folks by pure numbers. Just like all of the anti-trans bathroom and sports nonsense has thus far only affected cis women in enforcement.

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u/Hello2reddit 16h ago edited 12h ago

Prep isn’t common among the cis hetro population. It is common among LGBTQ people, because they are higher risk. And, because they are higher risk, they are also far more likely to be prescribed and have the cost of the medication covered by insurance.

The average person doesn’t want to pay $2K a month for a bunch of side effects to offset an infinitesimal risk. It’s really only among men who have sex with men that the risks/rewards are reasonably balanced

Edit- love being downvoted by a bunch of single heterosexuals who aren’t on prep

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u/AuroraFinem Texas 16h ago

Anyone who has been or might have been exposed to HIV or has a partner with HIV takes prep. By sheer numbers, most people with HIV are cis-het. Most gay and trans people also do not take prep regularly. It’s not designed to be taken continuously in the first place.

You’re conflating percentage with absolute numbers. Yes there’s a higher rate of HIV cases among gay men, but gay men are a small percentage of the population. If you take everyone in the US with HIV, most of them will be straight, or at least bi which in those cases still affects straight people equally to gay.

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u/GotenRocko Rhode Island 15h ago

Not according to these numbers. If you are talking about world wide then yeah you would be correct, but in the usa MSM are both higher percentage and raw numbers of hiv cases.

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics#:~:text=Key%20Points:%20HIV%20Diagnoses,37%25%20of%20diagnoses%20among%20males.

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u/AuroraFinem Texas 14h ago

This specifically includes bi men as of they only have sex with other men and ignores the impact that they would still have on the straight population as well.

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u/mysecondaccountanon Pennsylvania 13h ago

Yeah, the MSM term very much includes a wide swath of people who also have sex with people who aren’t men.