Submitted on Monday 21st September 2020
Rejected on Friday 23rd October 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow gay and bisexual men to give blood as easily as all other healthy citizens
I want Parliament to scrap the 2017 policy for gay men to abstain 3 months before a blood donation and make it the same as other healthy members of society. The policy purposely discriminates against a minority, it shouldn’t be in use.
In the 1980s gay men were banned from giving blood entirely. Then in 2011 there was a one year wait to donate blood and in 2017 the wait was reduced to 3 months.
There is no reason to discriminate again a minority, people who need blood can’t wait 3 months to finally recieve it. The pointless delay doesn’t even make sense, seeing as the blood is tested for any fluid transmitted diseases before it can be used.
Anyone can have an std, not just gay men.
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