This is one of those we didn’t believe until we clicked through and landed on the official website. Technically the study ended last September, but it existed. The grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to Wake Forest University Health Services was $2 million. The study? “HIV Prevention Among Latina Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men: Evaluation of a Locally Developed Intervention.”
Locally developed intervention … do they manufacture condoms in Winston Salem?
The Dept of Health and Human services awarded $2 million to Wake Forest University for a study on "HIV prevention among Latina transgender women who have sex with men" https://t.co/oB7o5ZYVVz
— RandoLand.us (@RandoLand_us) January 21, 2023
— TexasToTheBone 🇺🇸 (@TexasToTheBone1) January 21, 2023
For just $1 million I can suggest using condoms
— Haunted Backlog (@Haunted_Backlog) January 21, 2023
Why don't Latina transgender women just do what everyone else does for HIV prevention? Seems like a reasonable solution.
— Lord BW 🇪🇨 (@WoodyHayesTOSU) January 21, 2023
It’s just so damn specific lol. Like, what’s the population size of Latina transgender women who have sex with men? How is it such a pressing societal problem that it needs a $2 million study? https://t.co/Ao7FtOezJX
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 21, 2023
We are $31 trillion in debt and we still do this
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 21, 2023
The size of that group is equal to the population of Latino homosexual men. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) January 21, 2023
That seems like a lot of words for a simple money laundering operation
— Punished Hatchling (@PunishedHatchl1) January 21, 2023
The grant game is such a racket
— Cheese For Everyone! (@CheeseForEvery1) January 21, 2023
Pretty sure there's already effective HIV prevention that's been well-studied and isn't gender- or ethnicity-specific
— diet mountain dew imbiber (@MasonJarred520) January 21, 2023
The more specific, the smaller the target and more likely it’s nothing but a payoff of some sort.
— Jay Dubb (@JayDubbTX) January 21, 2023
At some point this "research" becomes repetitive so they must split the field into smaller and smaller lots so that every member of the patronage network gets a piece of the pie
— scuba_claude (@ClaudeScuba) January 21, 2023
wE cAn’T shUt dOwn THe gOverNmEnT
— Jason (@PaleoconJedi) January 21, 2023
This reminds us of San Franciso Mayor London Breed launching both a five-year $6.5 million plan to end trans homelessness by 2027 and her $1,200-a-month Guaranteed Income for Trans People program.
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