Blood Donor

However, some feel the guidelines still exclude and add stigma to too many gay and bi donors.

The new policy sounds more inclusive, but PrEP users would still be excluded.

After a mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub that killed 50 and left scores injured, officials stressed the need for blood donors – unless you’re gay.

Health Minister Marisol Touraine called the move the end “of a taboo and discrimination.”

Sculpture uses blood from nine gay, bisexual, and transgender men to protest FDA ban.

Under the proposal, the current blanket ban on donations from gay and bisexual men would be replaced with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the last year.

A woman says the for-profit company discriminated against her because she’s transgender and told her they’d notify other blood centers that she was on a permanent deferral list.

The FDA says it favors ending the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the previous 12 months.

Eighty congressional lawmakers sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, calling for the Department to replace the FDA’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men with a policy based on individual risk factors.

The Blood Products Advisory Committee will not reconvene to continue discussions or to recommend that the FDA end its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.