January 8, 2012

For Anyone Interested

ftmark:

I quite miss giving blood and I wanted to register to the Candian bone marrow donations list, but (because I am a man who has sex with men) I am not allowed.

So I’m just going to write them a letter.

Here is what it says,

Hi there,

My name is Mark and I used to donate blood when I could, a few years ago I came out as bisexual and I have been with a few men since so I stopped donating. I have a question, as a man who has sex with men, I cannot give blood, correct? But I am also a transsexual man (I was assigned female at birth and have transitioned away from that identity since then), I have never had genital surgery and I do not ‘bottom’ for anal sex. Does this exclude me from your rules? Can I donate? I also wanted to apply to be on the registry for stem cell donations, as far as I can tell the same rules seem to apply.

Please let me know, all I want to do is be able to give blood again and to possibly register to donate bone marrow. (Honestly, the whole ‘no homosexual men’ rule seems pretty outdated).

Best Wishes,

Mark

3:36 am • 57 notes • via ftmark

Notes

  1. watch-me-as-i-fall-apart reblogged this from pansexualpride
  2. littleshadowpkmn said: Something tells me you won’t be happy with whatever they answer. If they do let you, they’ll probably use the basis of your biological sex and say “Well of course you can because it’s not truly man x man sex”.
  3. kutie-chan reblogged this from exoticgreen
  4. exoticgreen reblogged this from sniffing-flowers
  5. ilungas reblogged this from whattheworldisreallylike and added:
    Seriously, why is this still a rule. Are we not past superstitiously believing that all gay men have AIDS? Do gay people...
  6. sniffing-flowers reblogged this from fuckyeahbisexuals and added:
    Honestly? Men who have sex with men can’t donate blood? WHY????!
  7. badgirlpanties reblogged this from pansexualpride
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  9. havehopekeepgoing reblogged this from fuckyeahbisexuals
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  16. maskitheclown reblogged this from pansexualpride and added:
    OMG this fucking letter. How is it so fucking polite? I’m gonna use fuck in every sentence of this reply just to...
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  22. lighthouseaccident reblogged this from pansexualpride and added:
    oh my god what the fuck is this shittery aren’t they supposed to have MEDICAL TESTS for EVERYONE who donates and not...
  23. callthepoliceidgaf reblogged this from pansexualpride
  24. pansexualpride reblogged this from ftmark
  25. raptortooth reblogged this from ftmark and added:
    gone away years ago, but I’d...interested in how they reply.
  26. somecallitobsession said: It actually used to be that men who had sex with men couldn’t give blood ever. Period. No matter what.