A quick google showed that there have been dozens of prosecutions in Australia for exposure or transmission of HIV:
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https://hivlegal.ashm.org.au/criminal-law/)
By the looks of it, it's
not an obligation to disclose there if you are taking precautions not to pass on HIV, but you can be criminally charged if your partner does get HIV? I am not a lawyer or Australian, so correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like this person is being misleading about the law. Which is not surprising, given that they're a creepy rapist.
I am also concerned about how this is going to fuck up public health. One of the very first examples they will use at the start of any 'introduction to epidemiology' course is uterine cancer. You'll first be asked to look at the proportion of women in a population that develop this cancer. But wait, the professor will say: what about the women who have had hysterectomies, and thus can't get uterine cancer? If you are not taking those women into account, your cancer numbers will be off in any given population.
The 'what about women who have had hysterectomies?' question is way more important than it seems, because hysterectomy rates among women vary
wildly by country, so you can't accurately compare uterine cancer rates between regions and populations unless you take into account how many women in all of those populations don't have uteruses anymore. And comparing regional rates is important, in turn, because that is how epidemiologists look at environmental factors that might be causing a cancer increase among a certain group.
Now, imagine what will happen to all that data once you throw the transgender medical-self-ID grenade into the scenario.
I would like to think that collecting
accurate information that might help identify and prevent horrible cancers among women will trump the feelings of a few male cross-dresses, but at this point I no longer believe that, to be honest. What does everyone here think?