It’s Long Past Time to End the FDA’s Gay Blood Ban | Them

Contents:

• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
• IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN
• RED CROSS FIR CHRISTIAN WHO OPPOSED “GAY PRI” MONTH
• DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY RIGHTS FORCED UPON THE AMERIN RED CROSS LA DISCRIMACIóN NTRA LOS...
• GAY RIGHTS
• END DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS THE AMERIN RED CROSS!

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

The Amerin Red Cross fac ntued allegatns of discrimatn agast gay men and Ains for s guil that prevent certa people om donatg blood through the anizatn’s blood driv, such as the one beg hosted on the Harvard Bs School Red Cross blood donatn eligibily guil are signed to protect the safety of the natn’s blood supply, and they are issued ncert wh guil set by the U.

LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

The guil have been effect sce 1985, when HIV/AIDS was s early stag of beg rearched and tted and when “men who have sex wh men” (MSM, a soclogil term that clus non-gay-intifyg men who have sex wh other men) domated diagnosed s. Personally, I’d much rather receive blood om a healthy homosexual than a heterosexual who don’t practice safe sex, ” says Alex Mandl (OF). Dpe this urgent need for donatns, people who have sex wh gay or bisexual men are still facg rtrictns on their abily to give Food and Dg Admistratn bars people who have had sex wh gay or bisexual men om donatg blood for three months followg the most recent sexual ntact bee of fears of HIV the blood agency changed the ferral perd om 12 months to three months November 2020 as blood donatns fell and hospals faced cril shortag durg the first year of the COVID-19 advot, cludg the Human Rights Campaign, say the FDA is movg too slowly on removg the rtrictn, sayg that 's an outright ban on the abily of people, particularly gay and bisexual men, to donate blood.

Rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men, who are nsired to be at high risk for HIV or AIDS transmissn, date back to the and bisexual men unrgo dividual risk asssments stead of time-based bans untri around the world, recently cludg Greece and France, acrdg to ternatnal reports.

IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO END THE FDA’S GAY BLOOD BAN

The event was held to prott feral l that effectively ban gay men om donatg Bispg/Star Tribune via Getty Imag, FILEValant told ABC News a new statement that rearchers are halfway toward s goal of enrollg 2, 000 participants across eight ci: Washgton D. They enurage gay and bisexual men who are 18 to 39 years old to participate the FDA, a statement to ABC News, said that this study uld generate data that will help the agency terme if a donor's dividual risk asssment and qutnnaire would be jt as effective rcg the risk of HIV the blood supply as the time-based ferrals the FDA already has FDA also said do not have a specific timele for when the studi will be pleted but that is "mted to gatherg the scientific data that n support alternative donor ferral polici that mata a high level of blood safety.

But there is one easily implementable solutn to the natnal blood-supply shortage that’s been available for years and uld be a lifele: allowg gay and bisexual men to donate eely. S., gay and bisexual men (often referred to as MSM, or “men who have sex wh men”) are not allowed to give blood if they’ve had sex wh another man the past three months.

RED CROSS FIR CHRISTIAN WHO OPPOSED “GAY PRI” MONTH

“It is my opn that we ntue to have a real problem wh laws and regulatns based on fear rather than science, ” she ntuatn of a MSM-specific barrier to givg is not only limg the blood supply, ’s unnecsary and “rooted homophobia, ” explas Perry N. ”In 2015, theFDA loosened s rtrictn, permtg gay and bisexual men to donate blood as long as they hadn’t had sex wh another man the past year.

Conducted tanm wh the natn’s largt blood centers—the Amerin Red Cross, Valant, and OneBlood—the rearch effort will survey 2, 000 gay and bisexual men across the untry between the ag of 18 and 30 who have had sex wh at least one man the past three months.

So a ban like this isn’t jt harmful to the Amerin public; “’s credibly harmful to the gay muny, both emotnally and physilly. The first step is to sign GLAAD’s petn at You then n—and should—te those around you, “sce many people, cludg gay and bi men, don’t know that this ban exists, ” adds Lasky.

DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY RIGHTS FORCED UPON THE AMERIN RED CROSS LA DISCRIMACIóN NTRA LOS...

Incredibly, regulatns put place durg the gay panic that characterized the emergence of HIV/AIDS are still spirually place today — and if the natn’s regulatory bodi are ser about endg this blood crisis, the first people they should be lookg to is queer 1986, followg years of polil prsure om all sis of the Amerin polil spectm, the FDA officially began ferrg cisgenr men who had had sex wh another man (MSM) om blood donatn, wh the ban place if they’d had gay sex om 1977 onward. In the meantime, heterosexual people who have equent unprotected sex are still seen as safer blood donors on paper than any given gay or bi man who is a monogamo legacy of gay panic that prompted the ial bans the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was still assumed to be a disease uniquely plagug the gay male muny, is still very much alive the “progrsive” half measur. It’s an sult that misterprets the real reason HIV/AIDS is still so prevalent the LGBTQ+ muny — ’s not that gay sex is more prone to STI transmissn than straight sex, but that gay men were left to die by unrg stutns for s, and that gay Black and Late men livg poverty today don’t have as much accs to meditns like PrEP as their more affluent whe and straight two dozen lawmakers urged the FDA to update “s discrimatory blood donor ferral polici for men who have sex wh men.

GAY RIGHTS

Augt 15, 2005Did the Amerin Red Cross San Diego fire a Christian employee for honorg his relig beliefs by refg to “celebrate Gay and Lbian Pri Month”? ”TermatedHartman was fired July after sendg an email to his superrs and workers cricizg the Red Cross’s announced plans to “celebrate” June as “Gay and Lbian Pri Month. Ten mut after I sent the email prottg Gay Pri Month, my puter was shut down and a supervisor marched me out of my office.

But when was time for Gay Pri Month, there were posters and flyers for all over the employe’ work areas, but nothg out ont where the public uld see .

END DISCRIMATN AGAST GAYS THE AMERIN RED CROSS!

”Whatever legal strategy Hartman cis to pursue, McReynolds said, he has already done the public a service by speakg out agast the Red Cross’s “gay-iendly” diversy program. Concln: No Middle GroundToday many ernment agenci, private rporatns, and nonprof anizatns have “diversy polici, ” which may entail “sensivy trag” for employe — ually to imprs on them that homosexual activy is above any kd of cricism — or donatn of funds for “gay pri” paras and siar enterpris.

Although the law do not perm employers to extract any kd of “loyalty oath to diversy” om their employe, always seems possible for banks, universi, surance pani, or chari to fd “other reasons” to fire Christian, Jewish, or Mlim employe who nnot embrace the employer’s visn of homosexual webse “Good as You, ” mentg on the Hartman se, drew a le the sand:“[I]n the world where anti-gay is ‘pro-fay’ and marriage is volved some sort of crazy sry war, ‘not celebratg homosexualy’ means unapologetilly monizg and stigmatizg those who embrace a society where equaly and acceptance are the name of the game. The LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgenred) muny fac discrimatn that most of are aware of one way or another. The suggtns are based on the New York State Office for the Agg’s list of Cril qutns for Senr Hog: Gay and Lbian Concerns:.