Blood donation lgbtq
Donation if you are LGBT+
You can donate all forms of donation regardless of gender, NHS Blood and Transplant considers all donors to be the sex and/or gender that they identify as, including nonbinary, genderfluid and agender donors. We’ll use the pronouns of every donors decision as well as our people sharing theirs.
Blood, plasma and platelet donation if you are transgender
As part of our continuous pilot to be inclusive and make sure our donors and patients receive the best care possible, we have made some changes to how we register your sex assigned at birth and gender.
From July 2024, we will ask all donors their sex assigned at birth, as well as their gender when signing up to donate. This will be asked only once, at registration, and then recorded confidentially – this will allow us to know what blood products are safe to manufacture from your donation (as this can differ based on the exposure of a previous pregnancy) as well as allowing us to treat donors more respectfully on session.
We also want to create sure your donation is safe for patients and that you are not at risk of harming yourself by donating too often.
The JPAC guidelines give more facts about donation
Science, Politics, and the Cease of the Lifelong Same-sex attracted Blood Donor Ban
On December 23, 2014, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced that her agency had decided to amend a policy in place since 1986. The old policy barred any man who had had sex with another human between 1977 and the present from donating blood. The new policy excluded only those men who had had sex with another man within the last year. The scientific evidence justified the novel policy, Hamburg explained. But a review of the history surrounding the decades-old “lifelong ban” on queer men donating blood makes clear that far more was at stake.
In 1983, almost a year before HIV was identified as the etiologic cause of AIDS, and 2 years before the licensure of the antibody screening evaluate designed to detect infection, political pressure began mounting to prohibit “high risk” donors from donating blood.
Gay organizations just coming to grips with a recent threat to the survival of their communities were concerned that an explicit ban on blood donations by gay men would add to stigmatization and homophobic attitudes. It is important to remember that this occurred when 25 states
Blood Donations
In January 2023, the Biden administration and the U.S. Sustenance and Drug Administration (FDA) took a significant step toward dismantling antiquated and discriminatory policy preventing gay and pansexual men from donating blood.
The new policy moves away from discriminatory policy based on identity and toward a science-based, individualized risk judgment approach.
Click here to learn more about the progress made in Blood Donation policies and track HRC’s efforts to drive change.
Top Ten Questions on Updated FDA Blood Donation Guidance
The updated guidance abandons the discriminatory deferral policy based on one’s persona within a organization (i.e., gay, and bisexual men, and same gender loving men).
The updated guidance now requires all persons to be evaluated based on an individual donor assessment. All prospective donors will be asked the alike questions, and if deemed eligible, can donate blood.
Prospective donors will not be asked if they are monogamous, or in a monogamous relationship.
Under the recent guidance, all prospective donors will be asked the alike set of questions about new or multiple sexual partners.
Those who do not
Blood Donation by Queer and Bisexual Men
Blood donors offer a gift for which there is no substitute. At AABB, we trust that the ability to save lives through donation of safe blood products should be uncover to as many people as workable, irrespective of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That’s why AABB has led efforts to make blood donation inclusive of genderqueer donors and championed the adoption of equitable, science-based individual donor assessment (IDA) processes to resolve blood donor eligibility that welcome Diverse blood donors, empower the blood supply and save lives.
FDA Approves Historic Spread of Donor Eligibility
On May 11, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance eliminating time-based blood donor deferral periods for gay, pansexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and women who have sex with MSM. The agency now recommends a new donor evaluating process that uses individual donor judgment - a donor screening process that uses gender-inclusive, individual donor-based questions for all individuals - to establish eligibility.
AABB is committed to helping the blood community implement the recommendations as posthaste as
How new FDA rule allowing gay, bisexual men to give blood is making donation more inclusive
For at least a decade, Chris Van Bibber had been prevented from donating blood.
The 35-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah -- who is openly homosexual -- was restricted due to rules set in place by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that did not allow sexually active same-sex attracted men from donating.
However, this past May, the FDA dropped all restrictions specific to gay and pansexual men donating blood, moving to a new blood donation risk assessment tool that is the similar for every donor regardless of how they name, which rolled out in August.
This meant that Van Bibber was able to make history as he donated blood at the American Red Cross Blood Donation Center in his home city.
"To sit support in that chair and to go through the questionnaire beforehand, and it was just -- I felt so much excitement and so much relief that we were finally here," Van Bibber told ABC News. "I just felt like I was finally able to complete my part and it's a small thing to do that can produce such a big difference."
The new policy is one that public health experts and gay rights activists said