This hour has no gay donors
How outrageous! I'm still irked beyond belief at the asinine and discriminatory regulations Health Canada snuck into place!
They recently tried to make amends by confirming that gay donors are not 'banned' per say, but that doctors need the recipient's permission to accept 'high risk' organs prior to the surgery (source). They don't, however, mention anything about an emergency or long term situation where the recipient is unconscious and unable to make that decision. As a Canadian, how would you feel if you were unconscious, perhaps through a coma, and the doctor decided that you couldn't get my plump liver and onions because I may or may not have had gay sex in the previous 5 years, even with a committed partner.
Furthermore, there has been no mention of Sally Slutsville or Joe Stud, the heterosexual poster-children of shortbus style weekend romps with no commitment attached. Or how about the patty cake lezbos with bit-off fingernails and tongue sores. Sure, they have no tattoos, don't happen to use drugs, haven't been to prison and are not hemophiliacs, therefore they get to donate their organs along with yesterday's trash and no discrimination whatsoever.
See why I'm irked?
No?
Did you read the article? Did you even watch the video?
If you did, let's talk. Leave a comment.
4 comments:
Hi Michael.
When I came out, my mother said: "well son, your taking a difficult route; but make sure you become happy".
In other words: be prepared for some disappointments and difficulties every now and then. Cause it's not alway easy to be different from others.
But as long as you make sure you become happy, it's not that big a deal.
Don't let your happiness depend on what other people think about you!!
Hi Piet
Don't let my ire cause you to believe that I'm unhappy. I could assure you I am a very happy person, but I'd rather let my friends vouch for me on that point.
One can be happy and justifiably enraged at the same time. I don't believe that all world changers are unhappy people.
I guess what shocks me about this sort of ban isn't that it exists--no surprise there, given that there's no shortage of homophobia in the world--but that it exists in Canada. As one of the few countries on the planet to have legalised gay marriage, I cannot understand how such a policy has actually been passed.
*sigh*
Indeed, the policies seem diametrically opposed to one another.
I, along with many Canadians, do understand that it was passed without the consultation or awareness of many groups. So long as we keep a fire under the government's backside, I'm sure it will be a passing fad.
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