Health minister announces removal of all blood donation restrictions for gay men
Nitzan Horowitz hails ‘historic step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel’
By Amy Spiro
19 August 2021
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced Thursday morning that all restrictions on blood donations from homosexual men will be lifted. “The discrimination against gay men donating blood is over,” Horowitz tweeted. “When I became minister, I ordered the removal of the degrading and irrelevant questions from the blood donation questionnaire — remnants of a stereotype that belongs to history.”
Horowitz, who was the second openly gay Knesset member in history, added that the road to Thursday’s decision has been a long one.
“For years we have been trying to get rid of [the restrictions] and now we’ve finally succeeded,” he wrote. “There is no difference between blood and blood. This is a historical step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel.”
Horowitz said all restrictions will be lifted as of October 1. Instead of a question about same-sex physical relations, the questionnaire will simply inform all blood donors to wait three months “after high-risk sex with a new partner or multiple partners.”
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Nitzan Horowitz hails ‘historic step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel’
By Amy Spiro
19 August 2021
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced Thursday morning that all restrictions on blood donations from homosexual men will be lifted. “The discrimination against gay men donating blood is over,” Horowitz tweeted. “When I became minister, I ordered the removal of the degrading and irrelevant questions from the blood donation questionnaire — remnants of a stereotype that belongs to history.”
Horowitz, who was the second openly gay Knesset member in history, added that the road to Thursday’s decision has been a long one.
“For years we have been trying to get rid of [the restrictions] and now we’ve finally succeeded,” he wrote. “There is no difference between blood and blood. This is a historical step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel.”
Horowitz said all restrictions will be lifted as of October 1. Instead of a question about same-sex physical relations, the questionnaire will simply inform all blood donors to wait three months “after high-risk sex with a new partner or multiple partners.”
more............ https://www.timesofisrael.com/healt...-all-blood-donation-restrictions-for-gay-men/
