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eumeliaI must say discussing the issue I wrote about and thinking about it throughout the day, because it is a subject important to me and it so happens that tomorrow is human rights day and there's a march in Tel-Aviv has brought an even more perspective in the way I thought about the stigma and what the blood donation clause actually does.
Hearing the information, coming from the AIDS Task Force representative the statistics is scary (and rightfully so), but in the end, the punishment is for "bad behaviour" and the stigma on gays and MSM keeps hold as long as the clause stays - it feeds the stigma.
The more I thought I about, the more I felt embarrassed about eating up blindly what I was being fed - it's too bad the opposite position was so weak.
Because the statistics don't hold water, when you think about (and I have), because marking an entire population as risky, due to a health crisis that actually affects us all and bad education is just wrong.
Plain and simple.
I think more than anything, it put in perspective my over all position regarding the blood donation clause. It's pretty low on the priorities when it comes to QUILTBAG rights. It is an issue of stigma, but HIV+ status marks anyone who is positive as "dirty" and "tainted" and so that needs to be fought, first and foremost.
I think queers have bigger problems than the clause.
The talk really exemplified that.
So yeah, the sweeping ban is bad, but there are more pressing issues and they need to be dealt with first - like the health crisis and bad sex education that is circulating the community.
Hearing the information, coming from the AIDS Task Force representative the statistics is scary (and rightfully so), but in the end, the punishment is for "bad behaviour" and the stigma on gays and MSM keeps hold as long as the clause stays - it feeds the stigma.
The more I thought I about, the more I felt embarrassed about eating up blindly what I was being fed - it's too bad the opposite position was so weak.
Because the statistics don't hold water, when you think about (and I have), because marking an entire population as risky, due to a health crisis that actually affects us all and bad education is just wrong.
Plain and simple.
I think more than anything, it put in perspective my over all position regarding the blood donation clause. It's pretty low on the priorities when it comes to QUILTBAG rights. It is an issue of stigma, but HIV+ status marks anyone who is positive as "dirty" and "tainted" and so that needs to be fought, first and foremost.
I think queers have bigger problems than the clause.
The talk really exemplified that.
So yeah, the sweeping ban is bad, but there are more pressing issues and they need to be dealt with first - like the health crisis and bad sex education that is circulating the community.
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Date: 2010-12-10 02:15 am (UTC)