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Blood: it’s in everyone to give

“Blood, it’s in you to give.” We have all heard this advertising pitch from Canadian Blood Services before, but what we don’t hear is the invisible asterisk for the fine print regarding who can and cannot donate blood. There are two specific groups of people who are unable to donate blood — not due to any underlying medical reason, but due to sexual orientation. Any man, which they define by their “current anatomic sex,” who has had sex with another male (MSM) within the past five years is banned from donating blood, due to this being an act that allegedly…

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