Actually, it is discriminatory, especially since it's been cited that not allowing gay men to donate blood is useless if the blood supply is not rigorously tested.
Did you know the
Red Cross was recently fined 4.2 Million dollars for not adequately screening and testing blood?
Knowing how unreliable self-reports of sexual activity are, why does the Red Cross insist on donor honesty as a way of keeping the blood supply disease free rather than actual tests?
Here are 2 questions that can cause them to reject you as a donor:
Have you gotten a tattoo in the past 2 years?
Have you had sex with a man since 1977?
Since honest answers are needed and you don't have to have direct sex with a man to contract HIV or other bloodborne pathogens (someone you have sex with can have sex with someone who has sex with a man without your knowledge)-what do these questions really get at?
It's all rather ignorant to me. I have a tattoo and have had sex with a man in that past 6 months. I also have Type O blood and am drug and disease free. Shame my blood won't be used to save a life.