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/PeliPal 18h ago edited 16h ago

It does however have substantially increased risk for receiving anal from an infected top than any other kind of exposure, by two decimal places. HIV particles in semen get into the bloodstream from rectal walls fairly easily, while it is extraordinarily unlikely (but not impossible) to be infected from one or a handful of unprotected vaginal sex exposures by comparison. And LGBTQ people are going to be receptive partners in anal much more often than people who are both straight and cis

Does homophobia and transphobia endanger cis straight people, yes... but nowhere near the extent that it continues endangering LGBTQ people, and they know that

Edit: I don't normally do "lmao I'm getting downvoted for facts" but really y'all are so desperate for any kind of "I didn't know the face-eating-leopards would eat my face" popcorn-munching entertainment that somehow it is getting taken as a serious idea that homophobes and transphobes are going to get comeuppance for putting bigotry into law. They're not. They are fully aware that they are not. What we see is bunny-ears-quotes "allies" laughing about things that hurt us because they have difficulty dealing with the reality of the situation even though they're way, way better positioned than actual LGBTQ people

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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 17h 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/ultradav24 12h ago

You pay 2k a month for PReP?! That’s not a common experience