According to a Hill article titled New blood donation rules leave opportunity for LGBTQ stigma, not even the Joe Biden administration is accepting enough of gay and transgender persons.
According to the publication, the Food and Drug Administration’s legitimate efforts to lower the risk of HIV infection through blood donations may encourage discrimination.
Insights Into The LGBT Movement
According to the in question regulation, those who take PrEP, an HIV treatment, must stop using it three months prior to donating blood.
This is due to the possibility that PrEP could result in false-negative testing for the illness when there are breakthrough instances.
It doesn’t need a degree to understand that giving blood is a very delicate procedure. Because those who require transfusions are already at risk for health problems, authorities have every right to protect them.
According to The Hill, some people would prefer that these individuals run a little risk of contracting HIV than upset the LGBT community—a term that recurs frequently throughout the piece. Fair enough, not all of its sources state this directly.
The Hill summarized an activist’s remarks and stated that guidance requiring individuals to alter their behavior to participate still leaves room for discrimination, whether explicit or implicit… because of the suggestion that their behavior is somehow harmful.
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Blood Donation Policies And LGBTQ+ Rights
Due to their propensity for promiscuity and the high prevalence of disease linked to their preferred sexual behaviors, gay and bisexual people are disproportionately affected by these laws.
Did not this simply cause the spread of monkey pox? Nobody disputes this, not even the liberals who are critical of the laws.
While their call for better testing technologies is legitimate, if these groups really want to donate blood, why can’t they just push them to change their behavior?
Naturally, the reason is that straight people in committed monogamous relationships are not subject to the same pressures.
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