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eduardo89
05-30-2014, 04:03 PM
Guess How Much the Feds Will Spend Studying How Transgender Women Use Facebook (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/05/30/guess-how-much-feds-spent-studying-how-transgender-women-use-facebook-n1845583)

The National Institutes of Health will spend nearly $200,000 to study how transgender women use social networking sites, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Head meet desk: (http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-194788-to-study-how-transwomen-use-facebook/)

The Friends Research Institute, based in Maryland, received $194,788 (http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8732209&icde=20504262) last month to begin the project operating on the premise that due to “transphobia” transgendered women are forced to use social media as an outlet, often leading to risky sexual behaviors.
“High-risk male-to-female transgender women (hereafter “transwomen”) face numerous concurrent cofactors for HIV acquisition and transmission including substance use, engagement in sex work, unemployment, low educational attainment, homelessness, and hormone misuse,” the grant’sdescription reads. “In Los Angeles County, estimates of HIV prevalence among transwomen are 15 [percent] overall, and 17 [percent] among Latinas, 29 [percent] among Native Americans, and 48 [percent] among African American/black transwomen.”

“As a result of discrimination/stigma, prejudice, and individual and structural forms of transphobia, transwomen form dense communities comprised primarily of other transwomen,” it said.

Facebook recently added more than50 gender optionsfor its users to choose from to accommodate transgendered individuals. Users can now identify as “Agender,” “Androgynous,” “Cis,” “Two-spirit,” orover 20 variationsof “trans.”

The latest government research project argues that transwomen use social network websites to “develop social support structures, connect with members of their community, receive positive and re- affirming perspectives on their gender identity, and inform behavioral norms.” They also use online groups to gain illegal hormones and find “sex work partners,” according to the grant.

The study will examine the use of these online resources and how they influence transgendered women’s behavior.

These are your tax dollars hard at work, folks.

Brian4Liberty
05-30-2014, 07:57 PM
So the neoconservatives (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?450257-Neoconservatives-The-List) at the Washington Free Beacon (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/washington_free_beacon) want to make this a big issue? Seems they are trying to sucker social conservatives once again...

Here's a neoconservative (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?450257-Neoconservatives-The-List) darling for you:

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oyarde
05-30-2014, 11:47 PM
I bet $1 FRN , you cannot find 6 of these not on Fed book .

Danke
05-31-2014, 12:30 AM
I laughed. Both eduardo's and my comments were deleted.

dannno
05-31-2014, 12:36 AM
I was going to guess more, I guess I'm a cynic.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
05-31-2014, 02:28 AM
So would today's BBC now play The Kinks' Lola with the words "Coca-Cola"? Or, are they still sticking with the "cherry cola" version?

JK/SEA
05-31-2014, 08:48 AM
i find it odd that a story on government wasteful spending would focus on a sexual issue.

personnally, i feel ANY wasteful spending should be discussed, and can think of MUCH WORSE abuse then this one. So-Cons. Pathetic.

tod evans
05-31-2014, 08:51 AM
I'll bet there's $1/4M in administrative fees levied against the tax base for the $200k awarded in the grant...

juleswin
05-31-2014, 08:58 AM
Colour me shocked, i thought it was going to be in the millions. I guess when it comes to waste, it is really the amount and not the focus that gets me annoyed so while I dont want to see any more tax payers money go to waste, I am more worried about the multi million dollars grants to say for e.g. the so called green companies to develop something that pretends to fight global warming than this

fisharmor
05-31-2014, 09:20 AM
So.... we're being forced to pay $200k to prove that the reason trannies get AIDS is because of Facebook?

eduardo89
05-31-2014, 09:31 AM
I laughed. Both eduardo's and my comments were deleted.

wtf is going on with the mods lately? Our back and forth friendly bashing has been deleted in multiple threads.

JK/SEA
05-31-2014, 09:32 AM
So.... we're being forced to pay $200k to prove that the reason trannies get AIDS is because of Facebook?

i wonder....how much does a Hellfire missile cost?...the ones that vaporize innocent children?...

JK/SEA
05-31-2014, 09:33 AM
wtf is going on with the mods lately? Our back and forth friendly bashing has been deleted in multiple threads.

i know, but i won't tell you.

puppetmaster
05-31-2014, 09:46 AM
I laughed. Both eduardo's and my comments were deleted.

What here?

Brian4Liberty
05-31-2014, 11:22 AM
The National Institutes of Health will spend nearly $200,000 to study how transgender women use social networking sites, the Washington Free Beacon reports.


So this is how the neoconservatives (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?450257-Neoconservatives-The-List) at the Washington Free Beacon (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/washington_free_beacon) hope to bamboozle social conservatives this time around?

Danke
05-31-2014, 11:32 AM
What here?

Ya, and other places.

JK/SEA
06-02-2014, 01:42 PM
Ya, and other places.

did you say something?

Occam's Banana
06-02-2014, 04:11 PM
i find it odd that a story on government wasteful spending would focus on a sexual issue.

It's not really odd at all when you think about it.

For one thing, the sexual aspect is sure to rile up the social conservatives. Then the social liberals will get riled up in reaction against the "hateful" so-cons getting riled up, which will just rile up the so-cons even more ... (and 'round and 'round the hamster wheel goes).

For another thing, it also allows certain "conservatives" to declare their passionately fervent devotion to "fiscal responsibility" - without having to advocate cutting any actually significant amount of spending ... (no, don't look over there, look over here at the bouncing ball).

So it's a "twofer" ...

And as an added bonus, you can even "leverage" the "synergy" between those two things - when, for example, the so-libs conflate "fiscal conservatism" with so-connish "hatefulness" and denounce both as being the same kind of thing.

ZENemy
06-02-2014, 04:19 PM
Thats a bargain compared to what they spent on Fat lezbo's

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat



(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance."