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The lesbian / gay / bi society got the blood donation service banned from Fresher's week at Birmingham uni because they claimed they were discriminating against homosexuals.

This is pretty selfish really. The people who need transfusions are generally in a pretty bad way already and the last thing they need or deserve is a transfusion-aquired infection.
I know the rules seem strict but then we have a duty to ensure that everything possible has been done to make transfusions as safe as possible for the recipient. After all, if you needed a transfusion wouldn't you want this to be so?

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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:30, archived)

Also I got my 10 units badge the other day. Woo!

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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:31, archived)

shit, you gave blood after 5 pints?

for shame!

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:33, archived)

I usually have that by noon

then again there are more and more units in a pint of lager these days.

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:35, archived)

I don't think it's selfish

If you want to take the risk out of it then you just don't accept blood, the rules are suggesting that a sexuality has some bearing on associated risk- it certainly CAN, but that swings both ways...so to speak.

A heterosexual person who has a risky sexual lifestyle is much more of a risk than a homosexual one who is in a safe and consistant relationship, to suggest otherwise on no other information than their sexuality IS discrimination.

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there is no such rule for bone marrow

i think the logic there is that the need for it is SO high that it cancels out the percieved risk.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:44, archived)