Woke Nonsense Has Now Ruined the Act of Donating Blood

[Kamaji]

Woke Nonsense Has Now Ruined the Act of Donating Blood

Matt Vespa
Jun 20, 2022

People donate blood. For one man, he’s been doing it for 50 years. He’s donated 125 pints of blood during his lifetime. That might have been put to an end after just one question on those surveys they hand out prior to sticking you with the needle. It’s irony at its finest. As the workplace moves to become more inclusive to accommodate the annoying and mentally unstable, they’ve barred people from doing simple acts—like donating blood apparently. The question asked if the man had been pregnant over the past six months. He protested over the question rightfully arguing it didn’t apply to him. He was then barred from completing his donation. This fiasco gets worse given how those who handle the blood drive responded (via Daily Mail) [emphasis mine]:

Mr [Leslie] Sinclair, 66, was told to fill in a form which asked whether he was expecting a child or had been pregnant in the past six months.

When he complained that as a man in his 60s this question did not apply and he should not have to answer it, Mr Sinclair said staff at the clinic told him they could not accept his blood.

The stand-off took place as NHS England launched a campaign earlier this week to recruit a million more blood donors over the next five years after numbers fell during the pandemic. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) began a drive earlier this month to find 16,000 new donors in the coming year.

It emerged last night that all potential donors are asked if they are pregnant to 'promote inclusiveness' and because pregnancy is 'not always visually clear'.

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Source:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/06/20/woke-nonsense-has-now-ruined-the-act-of-donating-blood-n2608977

[PeteS in CA]

It's been a while since I've donated blood (2016, IIRC), but the screening questionnaires I filled out always made clear that this was a question to which I didn't need to respond. The OP article incident happened in England. Maybe they are doing differently. Or maybe US screening questionnaires have been updated in a similarly silly way.