Side Effects Follow ECTS @SideEffectsNews Why aren't millennials giving blood? bitly2fRZG5i 514 PM 28 Sep 2017 Belinda Blumenthal @philomenapunk Follow because we all gay ide Effects @SideEffectsNews Why aren't millennials giving blood? bitly2fRZG5i 1129 AM 3 Oct 2017 3199 Retweets 11051 Likes agapantoblu somecunttookmyurl creaturethatcries dr-dendritic-trees karnythia voidbat genderfuckt optimysticals the-fury-of-a-time-lord luidilovins the-modern-satyr seedydemigod captainfunkpunkandroll the-real-eye-to-see Didn’t even know people are not allowed to give blood if they are gay That’s been the thing for years The HIV scare of the ‘80s prohibited us from donating blood And they still hold that against us despite the fact that that claim has been debunked over and over again the wording on the paperwork is “Are you a man who has had sexual intercourse with a man after 1980” or “Are you a woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man who has had sexual intercourse with another man since 1980” this was a blood drive at my college where majority of the students werent Alive in 1980 I donated all the time back when I was a virgin because o- but now I’m not allowed to So a better question for this article is “Why won’t baby boomers let queer people donate blood even though all the blood gets screened for HIV and aids anyway?” though theres a lot of room for loopholes in the wording of it This fucking matters Bias in medicine is bias that should not exist Fucking fix it This is disgusting hey trans people can’t give blood either was banned from a plasma place for having the nerve to show up and be trans “we don’t serve you people” This is one of the reasons why it was painful for a LOT of Queer people after the Pulse shooting We kept seeing messages calling for blood donations but so many of us can’t donate We couldn’t even help our own community !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as someone who has received money andor drugs in exchange for sex i have a lifetime ban on giving blood FURTHERMORE my whore blood is so filthy that if you’ve had sex with me in the past year YOU can’t give blood! and that’s a federal goddamn guideline folks! If you lived in Europe for 3 months between 1980 and 1996 you can’t donate blood which basically takes out everyone who ever served in the military and was stationed overseas anyone who studied abroad or anyone who had a job overseas during that period The Red Cross is always announcing they have a shortage of blood donors but they create the shortage with the byzantine array of restrictions that they refuse to revisit Okay the above stuff is stigma and total crap we have efficient screens for HIV and things now the blood will be screened anyway banning people for their sexual history is completely prejudice and its wasteful and those rules really need to go But the last one the ban on donation for people living in Europe is actually done for a reason Its an attempt to limit the spread of vCJD which we don’t have a way of screening for right now Last i went you could donate blood if trans I was openly trans at my blood clinic and they took me So its probably just that particular clinic which I say so that other trans people arent discouraged from trying to donate Also… as long as its the only question you lie on… if theres a blood shortage emergency I really dont see why not lie on that one question Like its terrible to have to do that and im not trying to make you feel bad if you avoiding donating because of it but since we know its not scientifically founded it seems perfectly moral to me to lie on that one question if you want to donate There’s not really a way for them to fact check that I really never understood why people don’t just LIE “Heartbroken they couldn’t-“ JUST LIE ON THE FORM I’m an openly queer woman in Italy and I’ve never lied on my form but also my form doesn’t even ask the gender of my partner All the questions are phrased “have you had any heterosexual or homosexual intercourse in the past six months?” “have you changed partner in the past six months?” They are willingly phrased to work for all people because there’s literally no scientific reason as to why straight blood would be safer than gay bloodIt’s just a formality Honestly you could write you just had an orgy and as long as you claim you’ve practiced safe sex they’ll give you the green card to donate At most they mark your sack for a more thorough venereal diseases screening in case you couldn’t affirm for sure that you’re 100% cleanThe whole “but after the AIDS scare” discourse is bullcrap They give AIDS informative flyers to all donors once a year and they screen for HIV all the sacks Whenever you donate you get the analysis results back and if you check straight or gay there’s always the results for the HIV test Because medicine knows that straights and gays are all equally likely to be affected it’s how it isIf you’re gay you can donate If you’re trans the most that can happen is that your doctor allows you two yearly donations roughly six months apart if you are having your period otherwise you’re allowed three yearly donations roughly four months apart That’s itIf the forms are like those provided in Italy you won’t have even have to lie If you live in some dumbass country that thinks you cannot donate if you’re queer though yeah just fucking lie about it because there is no valid reason that says you cannot give bloodIt’s an whole different matter if we’re talking about restrictions based on where you were at X dateThese questions are common worldwide because they refer to viruses and infections that cannot be screened This is not made because the Red Cross is mean and cruel and whatever the fuck it’s because they cannot be sure your blood is not contaminated and since the blood is going to someone who it stands to reason is already compromised on their own they cannot fight their own battle and add more That’s why you cannot donate My uncle died because he was fighting leukemia and was injected a transfusion of infected blood DO NOT LIE ON THE FORM ABOUT ILLNESSES YOU HAD OR PLACES YOU’VE BEEN TO YOUR WISH TO DONATE IS WORTH JACK SHIT IF YOU CONTAMINATE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WEREN’T HONEST Meme











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