e-1589 (Blood donations)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-95-02 Government Response to petitions concerning blood donations
- Blood services
- Discrimination
- Gay and lesbian persons
- Men
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the government of Canada
- Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will not accept blood donations from men who have sex with men, if they had a male sexual partner within a year;
- The ban focuses on gender and sexual identity over sexual behaviours more likely to indicate risk of sexual disease, despite the fact CBS screens all blood from all donors for a variety of factors, including HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases;
- The ban creates and reinforces negative stigma surrounding men who have sex with men, and prevents potentially healthy donors from donating blood; and
- CBS misgenders trans women as men for the purposes of blood donation and focuses on their gender affirmation surgery status, despite there not being a single documented case of a trans person donating infected blood.
- Open for signature
- March 19, 2018, at 1:52 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- July 17, 2018, at 1:52 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
-
Randall Garrison
(Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke)
December 10, 2018 (Petition No. 421-03066) - Government response tabled
- January 28, 2019
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 791 |
British Columbia | 1621 |
Manitoba | 185 |
New Brunswick | 72 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 71 |
Northwest Territories | 10 |
Nova Scotia | 184 |
Nunavut | 1 |
Ontario | 1484 |
Prince Edward Island | 122 |
Quebec | 314 |
Saskatchewan | 295 |
Yukon | 21 |