Okay I know I say this a lot, but the Clown World has reached an entirely new level.
You may know by now that the FDA has some pretty strict guidelines for gay men when it comes to donating blood.
Here, I'll just quote from the article below:
Specific criteria for men who have sex with men (MSM) was created due to the higher rates transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases amongst gay and bisexual males. As a result, men are restricted from donating if they have had sex with another man within a 3-month period.
This criteria makes perfect sense if you're a scientist. It's just a safety precaution to keep the blood supply from being polluted with HIV/AIDS.
Now, here we are in the year 2023 and The American Red Cross gives us this gem:
Yes, you guessed it: If you are a man who has sex with men, but you "identify as" a female, you're totally exempt from this rule.
Gay men, sorry, but you don't get any exemptions here because your identity within the revolutionary LGBTQIA2+ community is waning.
Concerns have been raised about adjustments to the eligibility criteria for people to donate blood to The American Red Cross, which is now allowing donors to self-declare their biological sex.
According to the American Red Cross website, the organization says it "understand[s] that there is a difference between biological sex and gender," but goes on to clarify that the Red Cross is following the recommendations of the FDA to determine donor eligibility on the basis of self-declared sex, as opposed to biological sex of the potential donors.
This change would allow a homosexual or bisexual male to present at the clinic and self-describe himself as "female" or "trans" and be exempted from the 3-month deferral typically associated with males who actively engage in sexual activity with other males.
Yes, and in order to get some clarity on this new guidance and prove that this isn't just another right-wing conspiracy theory, Reduxx called up The Red Cross:
A member of the Reduxx team called the Red Cross Donor and Client Support Center posing as a biological male who identified as a woman to check eligibility requirements. When the agent was asked if a person "assigned male at birth" who was actively having sex with other biological males was able to donate blood, he responded that so long as the potential donor self-declared their sex as "female," they would be allowed.
"If you identify as a female… if you answer the question as a female, anything that's going to come up – regarding the transgenderism… is not going to apply," the agent stated, after consulting with his managerial team for several minutes.
Similarly under the rules, females who identify as "men" and who have sex with biological males or other females who identify as "men" are ineligible and subject to the 3-month deferral.
This is, without question, absurd.
It's not scientific, it bows to the gender cult, and it leaves those of us who depend on the blood supply at risk.
The policy of self-identification applies to all forms of blood, plasma, and platelet donation, which contradicts The Red Cross' weight and height requirements for donors on the basis of sex. Regular donors are also allowed to have information on their sex changed upon verbal confirmation, which the Red Cross perplexingly claims is for the sake of "donor safety and accuracy of records." Individuals do not need to declare that they are transgender.
Again, this is like next level Clown World right here.
We're literally sidestepping science and risking the health of all in order to appease the alphabet cult.
If you're gay and you want to get around the science, all you have to do now, in order to be eligible to donate blood, is "identify as" a woman.
And if you're old fashioned and don't want to do that, you can just wait until the FDA removes all requirements for donating blood:
This involves extreme levels of stupidity and is unbelievably unscientific – oh, and we live in a dystopian black comedy.
That is all.