Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

A gay Toronto man who concealed his sexual history on a blood donor questionnaire and was sued for negligence by Canadian Blood Services has lost in Ontario Superior Court.

In a decision released Thursday, the court sided with CBS in its suit against Kyle Freeman for "negligent misrepresentation."

The court said Freeman did not have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms defence against the claim of negligence.

The decision essentially upholds the current CBS practice of prohibiting men who have had sex with other men anytime since 1977 from donating blood.

— "Gay Ont. man loses blood donation negligence suit", CBC

Dear Canadian Blood Services,

I'm glad you have lots of other customers.

Comments

[j00j]

Gahhh. It's the same in the US. I love how I'm considered to be at risk because I have had sex with my partner (who is bi and male), regardless of our safer sex practices. Whereas apparently I could go out and pick up some random strange straight guy and have unprotected sex, and that's not on their list of risk factors. That totally makes sense. ARRGH SMASH.