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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the state of Tennessee over its decades-old felony aggravated prostitution law, arguing that it illegally imposes tougher criminal penalties on people who are HIV positive.

The lawsuit, filed in western Tennessee, follows an investigation completed in December by the Justice Department that warned that the statute violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case heads to court separately from another federal lawsuit filed in October by LGBTQ+ and civil rights advocates over the aggravated prostitution law.

Tennessee is the only state in the United States that imposes a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” if convicted of engaging in sex work while living with HIV, regardless of whether the person knew they could transmit the disease.

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[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (28 children)

So from my understanding, people with HIV who take treatment and have a low or undetectable level of the virus cannot spread it.

Add onto that safe sex practices such as using condoms.

So in theory it should be completely safe for them to engage in sex work.

Although I worry the US healthcare system is incapable of caring for its citizens effectively.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (26 children)

That's a lot of trust to put on something so deadly.

Here's an example. I work in a restaurant setting. If I have a virius that can kill people, and it can be transmitted by food that I touch, but I'm taking treatments and it's not transmittable, should I be hired to work in restaurants? If I am, should I inform every customer that what they eat may kill them? Or do we just take my word for it and hope that a) I'm honest, or if you don't trust that, that b) the doctors got it 100% correct and not 99.9999999%? Would you eat at that restaurant? Would you let your loved ones?

[–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (8 children)

99.9999999%

That’s a lot of nines. A failure rate of one in one billion? I’d definitely roll those dice for some Five Guys.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

But the number is important, and the number in this case is probably close enough to 1 that the state should keep out.

If they want it to be safer they could hand out prep and condoms to the prostitutes and Johns.

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