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Can male lover men give blood?
Gay and bisexual men are not automatically prevented from giving blood.
Men who possess sex with men and who have had the same boyfriend for 3 months or more and encounter our other eligibility criteria are proficient to give blood.
Anyone who has had anal sex with a new match or multiple partners in the last three months, regardless of their gender or their partner’s gender, must stay 3 months before donating.
We assess your eligibility to grant blood based solely on your control individual experiences, making the process fairer for everyone.
If you are taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) you will be unable to provide blood. If you stop taking PrEP or PEP, you will need to wait 3 months before you can give blood.
We thank that any deferral is disappointing if you want to save lives by giving blood.
If you have previously been unable to donate blood because of the guidelines and would like to donate, please phone us on 0300 123 23 23. One of our team can review the new guidelines with you and, if eligible, novel your next appointment.
Why is there a 3-month wait after sex?
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The gay people pushed to transform their gender
"The doctor told me that with the surgery he could change the 2% male features in me to female features, but he could not change the 98% female features to be male," she says.
After that, she thought she needed to change her gender.
Hormone therapy seemed to bring positive changes. She grew breasts, and her body hair thinned. "It made me feel good," she says. "I felt beautiful. I felt more attractive to the kinds of partners I used to have."
But then she had the operation - and came away feeling "physically damaged".
She had a brief marriage to a dude but it broke down, and any hope she had that life would be better as a woman was short-lived.
"Before the surgery people who saw me would say, 'He's so girly, he's so feminine,'" Marie says.
"After the operation whenever I wanted to feel like a woman, or behave like a woman, everybody would say, 'She looks like a man, she's manly.' It did not facilitate reduce my problems. On the contrary, it increased my problems...
"I think now if I were in a free society, I wonder if I would own been like
The Lies and Dangers of Actions to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Individuality Change Efforts
We, as national organizations acting for millions of licensed medical and mental health care professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to express our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to modify a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We be upright firmly together in support of legislative and policy endeavors to curtail the unscientific and hazardous practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Minor Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Kid and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that suc
Sexual health for homosexual and bisexual men
Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to pass on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Using a condom helps safeguard against HIV and lowers the risk of getting many other STIs.
If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone fresh, you should have an STI and HIV quiz every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is important, as some STIs do not generate any symptoms.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.
Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can obtain it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated food and drink.
Symptoms of hepatitis A can emerge up to 8 weeks after sex and encompass tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).
Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a entire recovery within a couple of months.
MSM can elude getting hepatitis A by:
- washing hands after se