The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday a proposal to ease restrictions on blood donation by gay and bisexual men. The move was celebrated by LGBTQ rights advocates as “a tremendous leap forward toward elevating science over stigma.”
The draft recommendations would eliminate a rule advocates call discriminatory that allows men who have sex with men to donate blood only after a period of three months after their last sexual encounter.
Instead, the new blood screening process would focus on the behavior of all potential donors, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.
