Calif. college suspends blood drives over federal gay donor ban

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I would like the universities to concentrate on educating young people to be good, productive citizens and quit spending a fortune trying to reconstruct our entire society. :rolleyes:
 
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Ellen, the blood bank at which I donate asks, if male, have you ever had sex with another man since 1978. I think medical people tend to shy away from the label homosexual since there are lots of guys who have sex with other men, but don’t identify as homosexual. I know that inn HIV/AIDS journal articles a clinical sounding phrase is used instead: Men who have Sex with Men, or MSM.
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That’s true. The CDC uses the term MSM. The title of the article is misleading in fact. The ban is on MSM donors not SSA donors. Sexual orientation isn’t the issue.

Daddums 🙂
 
My daugter attended college and is now in grad school and my son is a college freshman. Together they have attended three institutions of higher learning all of which host blood drives.

I have never seen any of these schools intervene in the policy of the agency receiving the blood.

I was a college dean for seven years, before I retired and a college prof before that. I worked at two universities. We hosted blood drives. The school’s governing bodies were not part of the program.

This whole thing seems to be inappropriate. You (the college or university) are the host. It is not your campaign or drive. Whoever is sponsoring the drive has policies and procedures that they have to follow.

The students at a college campus are usually over 18. If they are offended by the organization behind the drive, they have several options.
  1. Refuse to donate
  2. Complain to the organization
  3. Request that the school not invite the organization back.
I’ve had many gay students. Most of them have been very intelligent and thoughtful young men who understand the reason for these precautions.

For God’s sake, these are adults that you’re preparing to enter the market place. The university is playing mommy by trying to speak for them.

If they were being abused, that’s another story. You must always protect the underdog.

I don’t buy the university’s interferencee in this matter.

JR
 
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