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I know you're being disingenuous with this, but PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophalaxis) is actually a couple of different drugs(Truvada and Descovy). Both of the ones in use now have been proven to prevent the spread of HIV by preventing infection (up to 92% reduction). Both are FDA approved. As part of a strategy including other safe sex measures, they help limit the spread of HIV and the overall much more costly retroviral treatments necessary to prevent those infected with HIV from getting sick, which is in the interest of medical insurance companies. White Gay men just tend to have better insurance, which is why the marketing is directed at them. Gay men have actively adopted it more than other groups, but there's active pushes right now to get other communities, in particular, the black American community, to adopt it, as they are living with the largest burden of HIV in the US right now. There's also an enormous effort right now to roll out general PrEP programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
As someone admittedly standing on the outside of your inane political discourse, America seems perpetually stuck in a loop of sensationalism and hate, that really seems to start with 9-11. Despite claims that the democrats are far left versus the far right repubs, your entire political spectrum basically doesn't map at all to the more standard European meanings of those terms. It's just both sides trying to own the other with ever more extreme positions, a biproduct of two-party dominance and a never ending electoral cycle that favors gut emotions over any sort of rational argument. And all this after discovering that basically your entire elite class was found to be rolling with pedophiles, including 2 of your last 4 presidents.
Looks like the numbers have gone even higher, now it's 56% have attempted suicide. I was writing about this in another thread, but if you believe these statistic, including the famous 41%, that's an incidence rate of 41,000/ 100,000. In reality, the rate of suicide is the highest among middle-aged white men (who account for about 70% of suicides in the US), with a rate of 27.10/100,000. The rates that are being reported for trans youth are literally impossible. Assuming you accept a figure of something like 0.6% of people being trans, you'd have a yearly suicide rate into the hundreds of thousands if these statistics were true. Instead, you barely crack a handful of reported cases.
I looked it up and the estimate was that there was 1.2 million suicide attempts in the US in 2020. A majority of those would have to have been trans people if you accept the nonsense above.
