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Leslie Sinclair has been a committed donor who has given over 100 pints of blood in the last five decades, but he was recently turned away from donating blood for refusing to answer if he had been pregnant.
On his most recent trip to the Albert Halls clinic in Stirling, Scotland, Mr. Sinclair was prohibited from donating after he refused to answer a question on a form asking if he was pregnant. As a man in his 60s, the question is nonsensical in many ways.
Sinclair said the clinic staff indicated they could not accept his blood unless he responded to that question. The staff argued that it is not always clear if someone is pregnant, and the policy is in place to “promote inclusiveness.”
The ridiculous question is now pervasive throughout the U.K. as part of the region’s efforts to be “inclusive.”
For example, The Telegraph reported recently that men undergoing scans related to cancer treatments at NHS trusts in England are being asked if they are pregnant before the procedure is initiated.
The male cancer patients or anyone having X-Rays and MRI scans are being asked if they could be pregnant after the Government removed the word “female” and replaced it with “individuals.”
According to the report, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool now asks “ALL patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender.”
It'll probably start surfacing on the west coast first...
Fairly silly, especially given blood donors are volunteers and unpaid in the UK.
People reading this nonsense may now be put of giving blood or bone marrow.
Some people who have rare blood groups are especially important in terms of becoming donors, so putting people off attending blood donation sessions is fairly stupid.
ha ha ha. I go to a skilled nursing facility and, every time - they already have about 7 of them forms from me - I write that I am martian for ethnicity on "other" line and am pregnant. Just for s-ts and giggles. Being a 6'2'' bearded man.
Fairly silly, especially given blood donors are volunteers and unpaid in the UK.
People reading this nonsense may now be put of giving blood or bone marrow.
Some people who have rare blood groups are especially important in terms of becoming donors, so putting people off attending blood donation sessions is fairly stupid.
I'm A-. They want my blood. But, everytime they learn that I lived in Germany during their specific timeline, they carry on about "Mad Cow" disease despite how long it has been since I lived there. Fine by me, I hate giving blood. I only gave out of guilt. WA state was the only state that didn't care about my 3 years in Germany.
Fairly silly, especially given blood donors are volunteers and unpaid in the UK.
People reading this nonsense may now be put of giving blood or bone marrow.
Some people who have rare blood groups are especially important in terms of becoming donors, so putting people off attending blood donation sessions is fairly stupid.
Yep and we're here. Without common knowledge to pull from, societies will go forward, confused. That confusion doesn't come without a price.
I get kicking the Bible to the curb. But kicking science to the curb? There's nothing left.
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