Tandav row: Supreme Court grants interim protection from arrest to Amazon\u2019s Aparna Purohit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is also stated in the petition that donor selection criteria as elaborated in the guidelines would be applicable to all the donors who wish to donate their blood, red cells, platelets and plasma under the \u201cblood donor selection criteria\u201d state in serial No. 12 that a donor shall not be among others, transgender persons, men who have sex with men and female sex workers, as they are considered at risk for HIV and are permanently deferred or prohibited from being eligible as donors for blood or plasma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, the guidelines as issued by the Centre, NBTC and NACO are sent to all state blood transfusion councils, blood banks and public and private hospitals which follow them conscientiously. Due to this bias, the transgenders are even prohibited from donating blood to close relatives and even those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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