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You think the FDA / NMDP are making medical policy based on bigotry and not on statistical analysis of pathogen distribution?

FWIW surely the measure is whether you're in a risk group for transmission of disease, like being European (wrt CJD).

Also it would be "since I have homosexual sex". It's not your proclivity that's being challenged it's actions which are known to put one at greater risk of carrying certain pathogens that are detrimental to a donee.

Of course it could go down differently to how you say: He lies, the person gets a temporary reprieve and then dies from some other pathogen that the donor wasn't aware that they have but that the medics were trying to account for by ruling out those having homosexual sex.



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