Petition information:
PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Whereas:
- Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will not accept blood donations from men who have sex with men, if they had a male sexual partner within a year;
- The ban focuses on gender and sexual identity over sexual behaviours more likely to indicate risk of sexual disease, despite the fact CBS screens all blood from all donors for a variety of factors, including HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases;
- The ban creates and reinforces negative stigma surrounding men who have sex with men, and prevents potentially healthy donors from donating blood; and
- CBS misgenders trans women as men for the purposes of blood donation and focuses on their gender affirmation surgery status, despite there not being a single documented case of a trans person donating infected blood.
We, the undersigned, concerned citizens, call upon the government of Canada to act now to repeal the blood ban against men who have sex with men.
Sign the petition here.
This petition is open until July 17, 2018. It needs a minimum of 500 signatures before it can be presented to Canada’s House of Commons (it currently has ~400 signatures).
Update! The petition has surpassed 500 signatures so it is guaranteed to be presented in the House of Commons.
But please continue sharing and signing. The government will be much more likely to support a petition with 100,000 signatures than one with less than 1000.
Hey Americans!
You can’t sign this, but PLEASE reblog it so it’s seen by more Canadians who can sign it!
Note that this also includes trans women, in the current bullshit iteration of their policies.
Official Government of Canada Petition asking Canadian Blood Services to allow blood donation from ‘men who have sex with men’
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