UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[disneydream06]

This is not lifting the ban on gay men donating blood.
This is imposing a new ban on gay men having sex.
I for one say, SCREW YOU FDA, I will continue to ignore pleas for blood donating because you think I am a disease carrier.

The FDA Wants Gay Men to Be Abstinent for a Year Before They Can Donate Blood


by Steve Williams


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/the-fda-wants-gay-men-to-be-abstinent-for-a-year-before-they-can-donate-blood.html#ixzz3aNt5532T

Comments

[matrixmann]

Also don't understand the medical purpose of this. Lesbian women are permitted to, and every white trash slut which doesn't miss out on anything is permitted to, even though you might question her being some of the sort of persons you want to donate blood. And simply "well, those don't come over anyway" doesn't count. (Besides that they always bark "people don't donate blood, we have a lack of conserves".)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Exactly. :o
It's all tested anyway, so why not just let every body donate. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*shakes head in dis-believe*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

This world is so screwed up. :(

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

it is!

[seaivy.livejournal.com]

but how would they know?????

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Apparently they this gays are super honest? LOL......

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

That's messed-up. :-( *hugs*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Beyond. UGH.......

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I left a pretty scathing comment to that article on the Care2 site.

I for one say, SCREW YOU FDA, I will continue to ignore pleas for blood donating because you think I am a disease carrier.

My stance exactly (they have the same ban on donating blood in Europe). Fuck 'em.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if Europe had some kind of ban too. UGH...

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

Yes they do, because only gay men get HIV, yannow. *sighs*

I carry an organ donor card. If they harvest my organs after I kick the bucket, I'll see it as the ultimate "fuck you" (besides doing someone else good, I know my blood is clean as a whistle).

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

So maddening. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

What the heck! This screams of discrimination, grrrr. Our FDA is one of the most screwed up departments :-/
Friggin
Dumb
As$e$

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Your FDA sounds so more accurate. :o

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable homophobic assholes!!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That sums it up really well. :o

[sistrmoon.livejournal.com]

This is one of my biggest beefs with the Red Cross. I see first hand how much blood is needed. The blood is tested anyway. It doesn't make any sense.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Exactly, it's tested.
How many times does a Hetero's blood get rejected?

[incertum-verum.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's some bulllshit.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I would so love to stop into the blood donation center at work, sit down and start the interview process, and then go, Oh wait, I'm gay, you don't want my blood.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

wow. that is incredibly insulting, and all kinds of wrong.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Totally.
Your icon says it all. :o

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I stopped giving blood years back because 'the authorities' constantly made excuses as to why they could take blood from a tranny.

Well, fuck you with a long poley thing for poling barges with"

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I stopped years ago when my BP started to be elevated and wasn't seeing a doctor yet, so it wasn't under control. Then the ban came out and well, that's that. :o

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i divorced my first husband 24 years ago. he was a frequent flyer at the NewsStand here in houston, which (back in the day) had glory holes. enough said there.

i have had two surgeries since then, i have tested negative to EVERYdamnthing even though i have gone bareback. i'm allergic to latex, and i only made good judgement calls. *shrugs*

but because of him, and because I AM HONEST ABOUT IT, i cannot donate blood. ever. nevermind that i've now been divorced from him longer than we were married.

oh, and since he's O-, and a universal donor, and a fucking LIAR THAT LIES, he still donates blood.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elkster.livejournal.com]

Hate this! I can't give blood anyway, but if I needed some I wouldn't care who it came from. After all, it's all tested and cleaned before putting in bags, right?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Exactly...
Just a new layer of discrimination, imho...

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

It's trying to make it look like they've lifted the ban whilst still making it impossible for them to do so! Urgh

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, you can be gay, BUT you can't have sex.
UGH...................