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Feds Spend $194,788 to Study How Transwomen Use Facebook
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $200,000 to study how transgender women use social networking sites like Facebook and how their use affects their chances of getting HIV.
The Friends Research Institute, based in Maryland, received $194,788 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.
Facebook recently added more than 50 gender options for its users to choose from to accommodate transgendered individuals. Users can now identify as "Agender," "Androgynous," "Cis," "Two-spirit," or over 20 variations of "trans."
The grant will fund focus groups and "iPad Social Network Interviews" with about 300 transwomen in order to define their "egocentric social networks."
One of the project's aims is to determine how the "behavior of other people" on social media influences transwomen to engage in "HIV risk" or "protective behaviors."Also read: RuPaul on LGBT Speech Police: 'Bitch, You Need to Get Stronger'
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