I can't help wondering how/if that interacts with the FDA's notorious policy on MSM.
Actually, wait a minute; it is 2011, and there is time for Google, because surely this is a thing.
And I am pointed to the NCTE, which suggests (http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/fda-to-review-its-blood-ban-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men/) that it may depend on whether the people staffing the blood donation thing decide to go by a person's gender or their assigned-at-birth sex or what, and it's generally a confused mess/minefield.
But it does look like one of the possible outcomes is for someone's past sexual behavior to retroactively have been more or less hazardous if they transition. And that is kind of hilarious, in a “laugh or cry” way.
(Also, now I need those crazy time-travel verb tenses from that SF thing whose name I can't remember.)
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Actually, wait a minute; it is 2011, and there is time for Google, because surely this is a thing.
And I am pointed to the NCTE, which suggests (http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/fda-to-review-its-blood-ban-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men/) that it may depend on whether the people staffing the blood donation thing decide to go by a person's gender or their assigned-at-birth sex or what, and it's generally a confused mess/minefield.
But it does look like one of the possible outcomes is for someone's past sexual behavior to retroactively have been more or less hazardous if they transition. And that is kind of hilarious, in a “laugh or cry” way.
(Also, now I need those crazy time-travel verb tenses from that SF thing whose name I can't remember.)