The current approach was discriminatory and wrong,” Trudeau told reporters Thursday. The new policy will screen all donors, regardless of gender or sexuality, for “high-risk sexual behaviours.” Canadian Blood Services said this will mean asking all donors who have had a new partner or multiple partners in the last three months if they’ve engaged in anal sex. (Quebec plans to end its own similar ban by next spring.) Health Canada said it had authorized a submission from Canadian Blood Services - which manages the blood supply outside of Quebec - to remove the current ban on donations from men who have had sex with men in the last three months. 30, and how Canadian Blood Services and the federal government will repair the damage caused by the ban to their relationship with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S) community. Canada’s ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men is finally being lifted, after Health Canada announced Thursday it was ending a policy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as “discriminatory and wrong.”īut questions remain about who will still be excluded under the new policy, which is set to take effect by Sept.
