Prohibiting gay and bi men, as well as others in the LGBTQ+ community, from donating blood is a discriminatory policy that puts lives at risk, especially during a pandemic. Since April, I’ve been calling on to stop letting red tape get in the way of healthy blood donors.
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We are in month six of a public health crisis, and the STILL hasn’t taken meaningful steps to allow healthy gay and bisexual men, as well as other members of the LGBTQ+ community, to donate blood.
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I welcomed the FDA’s decision earlier this month to roll back a discriminatory policy banning gay or bisexual men from donating blood.
Now, even as we face a blood shortage, the agency is letting red tape get in the way of this change.
I'm calling for answers.
My statement from our zoom last night, “top priority is to lift the ban on giving blood.”
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The people who the FDA currently answers to tend to believe in conspiracies that chemicals in water turn frogs gay & that fluoride & 5G cell towers control our thoughts. So I think its pretty safe to assume they think blood from LGBTQ humans will infect them w/ homosexuality.
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Please keep fighting Katie. I have a bisexual son who is O neg who formerly donated Power Red. They won’t allow him to donate. He’s healthy, willing and is a universal donor...and yet...
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