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Do you donate blood?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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Same here, but I am not opposed to it.
I also am unsure if I am able to. I know some conditions will disqualify you.
Yeah apparently they don't want people like me: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements/lgbtq-donors.html
I don't. I have been told that I'm not eligible because I've had a liver 'condition'...yellow jaundice as a baby.
But now, even if it were wanted I would not volunteer because I'm an extremely "hard poke".
But now, even if it were wanted I would not volunteer because I'm an extremely "hard poke".
I hate that people can be excluded for being gay. So ridiculously wrong!
They probably think the gays are going to have some sort of weird disease....
Yeah, that old fashioned mindset that just being gay means you're automatically going to catch something. Meanwhile some asshole guys are out there screwing everything that moves and spreading diseases like wildfire and no one is offended because at least he's sleeping with women. The mindset needs to change.
Welcome to the club.
Agreed, people of any sexual preference can potentially donate diseased blood.
I have a male partner but I am probably least likely to bring in a disease because we are monogamous and haven't been with anyone else in well over a decade. I've done STD tests in the past and I am clean.
100% agreed, literally anyone can spread disease, it's not limited to sexual preference. The ignorance of some is terrifying.Agreed, people of any sexual preference can potentially donate diseased blood.
I have a male partner but I am probably least likely to bring in a disease because we are monogamous and haven't been with anyone else in well over a decade. I've done STD tests in the past and I am clean.
Indeed. I am sure these rules for donating blood are leftover from the 80s but its 2023 now. Time to update them!
Absolutely! Time to get with the current era...then again, given what we're seeing introduced as legislation these days, getting with the times is near impossible for some.
Thats true. Also I don't even want to donate blood in the first place so this isn't a hill to die on for me.
I did at one point, but I'm indifferent these days. They don't want my blood, they can't have it.Thats true. Also I don't even want to donate blood in the first place so this isn't a hill to die on for me.
