シェイン・ビットニー・クロンのインスタグラム(shanebitneycrone) - 12月24日 07時14分
For over 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration has forbidden gay men from donating blood. Today the FDA recommended a proposal that would lift the lifetime ban, but only for gay men who are celibate for at least 12 months. Although this is a step towards equality, it is important to note that no other group of people are required to meet the one year celibacy requirement. Requiring gay men, even those in monogamous relationships, to be celibate for a year only reinforces the discriminatory, judgmental, and inaccurate stereotype that all gay men are promiscuous. A straight man can be intimate with 200 women in 12 months and STILL donate blood--without question. The FDA is basing its decisions on a fear that stems from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, well before the use of current state-of-the-art blood screening technology. Today, every single blood donation, regardless of the donor's race, gender, or age, goes through an extensive screening process before the donation is put into circulation, so it should not matter if a donor is gay or straight, male or female. I commend the FDA for moving in the right direction, but until it views all donors equally, it will continue to perpetuate an archaic and ignorant view of gay men.
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