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transgenderstudentlife:

My friend Michael began this petition on April 9th, 2012. He’s gotten 1,087 signatures so far, but he needs to get to 100,000! Please go sign his petition!

The Federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability decided to uphold a discriminatory rule that bans men from donating blood if they have had sex with another male, even once, since 1977. This decision affects thousands of men who wish to donate blood but have been denied. According to the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 219,000 more pints of blood could be donated if the ban is lifted. In a time where blood shortages cause many problems, such an increase is absolutely necessary. The Federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability should lift the ban so that all men who are disease free are able to donate blood. Many U.S. senators, the Red Cross, and America’s Blood Centers all support the lifting of the ban.

The newest and most advanced testing can detect the HIV and AIDs virus up to 2 weeks before it has been contracted. Because of this, I am petitioning to change the deferral period from life to a month. This time period allows the tests to detect any tainted blood. This would allow gay men to donate blood as equally as everyone else.

qbits:

by Edmund Broch
22 April 2012, 9:42pm

The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has warned foreign diplomats that his country would not be “bribed” with or dictated by promise of aid to accept homosexuality.

He said: “If you are to give us aid…

If you folks could help out a student by taking this quick survey on trans* health care access?

The survey is inclusive and provides a space for you to enter personal entries anonymously. The person who created this survey wants to know your experiences - as well as what you think of the topic in general.

Please take and spread the word. Thank you.

loversintransition:

By Tristan Taormino

Once staunch separatists, queer people are flaunting our fluidity when it comes to gender and identity. Whereas in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the dominant LGBT narrative was a coming-out story, today it’s more like “I’m a lesbian in a relationship with a gay-identified bi guy, so what does that make me?” Plus, the evolution of an out, proud, vocal, and visible transgender community has turned everything on its head, making the term “opposite sex” practically meaningless, or at best confusing. What’s the opposite sex of a male-to-female transsexual? Is the lesbian lover of a male-to-female transgender person bisexual or something else entirely?

All these advances have led to greater dialogue and diversity within LGBT communities.

Click on the link above to read the full article.

radicalqueery:

In celebration of National LGBT Health Awareness Week, NCTE has released this preview of a fact sheet, Transgender Sexual and Reproductive Health: Unmet Needs and Barriers to Care. The full fact sheet will include policy recommendations for the medical community to improve the delivery of health…

artoftransliness:

This newly launched program matches used binders with those who need them. This is something to look into if you have a used binder to donate or if you’re in need of a binder! 

slinkyofpansexuality:

This isn’t my article, I didn’t write and I don’t know the person that did, I simply find it an incredibly informative read, and I highly suggest anyone in a romantic relationship (or otherwise) with an asexual person read it.
Trigger warning for mentions of non consensual situaltions.