I am very pro-gay rights, I am very supportive of gay people being able to do anything that non-gay people can do, but the fact of the matter is that it is a privilege to donate blood that cannot be extended to people who have gay sex. Let alone the treatments required for HIV (assuming it is caught in time, which is complicated by blood recipients not necessarily monitoring for HIV symptoms). This is not descrimination, this is a nessecary protection to blood recipients, who often are in need of blood for a serious medical issue that would be severely complicated by an HIV infection. In Canada, you cannot donate blood within 6 months of having gay sex. Just one donation can help 8 different recipients, mixed together it could contaminate dozens if not more of blood transfusions which hospitals can rarely accept the loss of. This also doesn't affect just one blood recipient, as donated whole blood is often mixed together with many other donors, and also can be separated out into its components. The reason that gay people who have sex with men cannot donate blood is because HIV cannot be detected in blood for the first 6 months of infection, but is contagious to those receiving tainted blood.
Statistically him and his partner are more likely to have HIV, but they're both allowed to donate blood. Is Person B allowed to donate blood based on the questionare?Ĭhange Person A to a straight guy who had a rock n roll lifestyle in his 20s but has since settled down and never got tested. Person B is statistically less likely to have HIV than the average person. Person B is a pre op trans woman who also tests negative, and is on PreP. Person A is an older gay male who currently test positive for HIV and takes antivirals that makes it impossible to pass the disease on. Imagine the following scenario: Person A and Person B are in a relationship. Especially in the case of preventative medication. Do pre-op trans people count as men based on their identified gender or their genitals? Is oral sex considered sex? Also whether the risk is considered higher for "gay" sex or for having sexual partners who have a history of IV drug use. It gets thorny when you dig into who counts as a man, and what counts as sex.
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