UK ends lifetime ban on blood donations for MSM

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...though they've moved to a 12-month deferral. Which...yeah, whatever. Now celibate queer men can donate. Still, I suppose it is progress, after a fashion. There are rumours that a change might be in the works over here in Canada, too. I can only hope.

Meanwhile, I love how the lifetime ban on donations for MSM is buried in an obscure submenu about a dozen clicks into the Canadian Blood Services website, and it never seems to be mentioned in their breathless press releases about the urgency of giving blood. I guess having the message "don't bother coming to the clinic, homo, 'cuz we'll throw your gay-ass blood right in the trash" splashed all over the place doesn't make for good PR.

ETA: WTF, the UK still has a permanent ban on sex workers...so even if you quit the biz an eternity ago and test clean, the blood people are still there with a big scarlet letter for you. FFS.