FACT CHECK: Were Over 40,000 People In Houston, Texas Diagnosed With An STD The Week Of June 9?

Data from the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site shows that there were no STD cases reported during that week.

Biden DOJ sues Tennessee over law penalizing prostitutes who knowingly expose others to HIV — claims it's discriminatory



HIV is an incurable auto-immune disease that afflicts roughly 1.2 million Americans, predominantly non-straight men. The Biden Department of Justice wants to eliminate a law in Tennessee that might spare countless more Americans from contracting it.

A year after suing Tennessee over its ban on child sex-changes, the Biden DOJ has sued the state again, this time in hopes of killing a state law that makes prostitution a Class C felony if a person knowingly infected with HIV engages "in sexual activity as a business or is an inmate in a house of prostitution."

The law was reportedly reclassified as a "violent sexual offense" in 2010 due to the grievous, lasting physical harm it can result in. As a result, those so convicted are required to register as sex offenders.

According to the complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Tennessee and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation "unlawfully discriminate against individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a disability, in their maintenance and enforcement of Tennessee's aggravated prostitution statute."

The lawsuit downplays the risks associated with HIV — a lifelong disease for which antiretroviral therapeutics cost potential sufferers anywhere from $1,800 to $4,500 every month — and takes issue with the requirement that persons convicted of aggravated prostitution must register as sex offenders. After all, this can impact convicts' employment potential and precludes convicts from hanging out alone with children in secluded areas.

The lawsuit cites a nameless black transvestite as a complainant "aggrieved" by the law. He was arrested in 2010 for prostitution "near a church or school" and pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated prostitution, having engaged in sex for money despite knowing he had HIV since 2008.

The transvestite alleges that as a result of the law — contra his conscious decision to sell sex while infected with a debilitating disease — he now has trouble finding employment because of his sex offender listing in the TBI's registry; is precluded from spending time alone with his nephew; and cannot change his name to "match [his] gender identity."

The DOJ claims that the TBI and the State of Tennessee are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by continuing to enforce the statute.

The aim of the lawsuit is to nullify the law; to remove all relevant convicts from the TBI's sex offender registry; and to shake the state up for damages for "Complainant A and other aggrieved individuals with aggravated prostitution convictions."

"The enforcement of state criminal laws that treat people differently based on HIV status alone and that are not based on actual risks of harm, discriminate against people living with HIV," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ's so-called Civil Rights Division. "People living with HIV should not be subjected to a different system of justice based on outdated science and misguided assumptions. This lawsuit reflects the Justice Department’s commitment to ensuring that people living with HIV are not targeted because of their disability."

Brandon James Smith, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's chief of staff, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press, "We are aware of the DOJ's findings, will give them appropriate consideration, and look forward to finding out more about DOJ's apparent cooperation with local activist organizations and private litigants related to this matter."

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) suggested the DOJ's lawsuit was evidence that "the fight is not in Washington. The fight is with Washington."

The ACLU and the Transgender Law Center beat the Biden DOJ to the punch on attempting to decriminalize prostitutes' intentional exposure of unsuspecting strangers to HIV. The Hill reported that the radical groups filed the challenge in the U.S. District in Memphis on behalf of four plaintiffs and OUTMemphis in October 2023.

The complaint indicated that there were just over 80 potential super spreaders registered for aggravated prostitution in the state.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Planned Parenthood campaign attacks virginity, claims it's a 'completely made-up concept'



Planned Parenthood may be best known for butchering the unborn and helping to sterilize minors — as its eugenicist founder intended — but a big part of its focus in recent years has been the distribution of leftist propaganda, both in the classroom and online.

Apparently aware that its abattoirs and STD clinics are of little use to those saving themselves for marriage, Planned Parenthood has attacked virginity in its latest propaganda campaign.

"Virginity is a completely made-up concept," a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman said in a video published on YouTube Wednesday. "It's a term that was created simply to control and shame people."

While the video claims that the concept of virginity is "not as simple as it seems," up until this week, a virgin was simply understood to be a person who had not had sexual intercourse. Virginity, in turn, was the quality or state of being virgin.

Where the English language is concerned, the specific term "virgin" has been used in reference to a "young woman in a state of inviolate chastity" and a "chaste man" since at least the Middle Ages, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. In the millennia prior, Latin speakers used "virginem" to refer to a "maiden, unwedded girl or woman."

Planned Parenthood stated as a "fact" in a corresponding blog post that "virginity is a social and cultural concept that is more important in some cultures and religions than in others. Many times, virginity has to do with a person being 'pure', and this idea of purity is often used to control and shame people — mainly women."

While cast by Planned Parenthood as a means to control women, virginity appears to be an effective way for both sexes to avoid a life controlled by debilitating sexually transmitted diseases and chronic sores.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest "Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance" report, there were well over 2.5 million reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in 2021. Syphilis rates skyrocketed 74% over a five-year period. There were nearly 3,000 congenital syphilis cases, which claimed the lives of 220 babies.

There were also an estimated 32,100 new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2021, 70% of which were among non-straight men "who reported male-to-male sexual contact."

Things apparently did not improve among non-virgins in 2022, which saw 1.6 million cases of chlamydia; 648,056 cases of gonorrhea; and 207,255 cases of syphilis.

Planned Parenthood's campaign against virginity leans heavily on relativistic thinking.

"It's super important to remember that sex means different things to different people," Planned Parenthood claimed in its blog post. "If we only think about sex as penis going into vagina, we leave out a lot of people and a lot of experiences. At the end of the day, you get to say what 'having sex for the first time' means to you."

The abortion group expanded on the need to relativize the term and sever the concept of sex from the procreative act between a man and a woman: "Society tends to define sex is a very narrow way: penetration. Penis into vagina. But where does that definition leave queer people? Or folks who can't or don't have penis-in-vagina sex?"

Planned Parenthood stressed that society should altogether reframe the issue, focusing not on prospective clients' loss of innocence from acts of fornication but on the "empowerment" sex supposedly entails.

"It's time to throw away the notion of losing your virginity," added the spokeswoman."When we make our own decision to become sexually active, we aren't setting ourselves up to lose anything at all."

This is not the first time that Planned Parenthood has attacked the concept of virginity. Last year, the abortion outfit apparently ran billboards stating, "Virginity is a social construct."

In a corresponding social media post the abortion outfit claimed, "Virginity comes from outdated — let's be real, patriarchal— ways of thinking that hurts everyone."

What is Virginity? | Planned Parenthood Videoyoutu.be

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Don’t Deadname MPX! | 8/18/22

Don’t Deadname MPX! | 8/18/22

Insurance company ordered to pay woman $5.2 million after claim she caught STD from male partner during sex in his car



Insurance company Geico has been ordered to fork over $5.2 million to a Missouri woman on the heels of her claim she caught an STD after having sex with a male partner in his car, which was insured by Geico.

Say what?

A Missouri court on Tuesday upheld a judgment awarding the money to the woman —referred to as "M.O." in court documents — who claimed she caught the human papillomavirus after having sex in 2017 with a male partner in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis, CBS News reported, citing a 2021 complaint.

The woman learned in 2018 she had HPV and claimed the man also knew he had it but failed to tell her, leaving her with "past and future medical expenses" and "mental and physical pain and suffering," CBS News added.

The woman told Geico she was pursuing legal action against the man, claiming she was negligently infected in the vehicle and that the car insurance policy should provide coverage for her injuries and losses, the network reported.

M.O. asked Geico for $1 million, CBS News said, citing the complaint — and she wrote, "Let me know."

Uh, no

Geico denied the coverage and rejected her claim, the network said. With that, the woman and man entered arbitration, and the arbitrator found the man negligently infected her and awarded damages of $5.2 million to M.O. to be paid by Geico, CBS News added.

Geico appealed the arbitrator's decision, but the Missouri court ruled that Geico had no legal grounds to appeal on several points, the network said. While Geico claimed it was "denied the right to litigate its interests before judgment was entered against its insured," CBS News reported that the court said Geico had a chance to do so when the woman contacted the insurance company claiming it should cover her injury and losses.

"Geico did not take advantage of this opportunity, and instead denied coverage and refused to defend Insured," the court noted, according to the network.

CBS News said Geico didn't immediately respond to its request for comment.