That's almost three different topics here.
First, the Dutch show: I find it absolute horrendous and sick. The end does not justify the means. I don't believe in the pretent "good deed" to bring attention to the topic - but even when I give the producers the benefit of the doubt, it remains sick.
Second: donating organs: Yes, I am a donor. Once I'm dead, they can take everything they can still use, I don't care.
Third: donating blood: I don't donate blood, simply because I have a weak circulation.
Are gay men allowed to donate blodd? I got curious and looked up the situation in Germany: in Germany, gay men can't donate blood either. The list of people barred from donating blood is long:
Persons
- older than 60, if they want to donate for the first time
- older than 68
- younger than 18
- weighing less than 100 pounds
- pregnant women
- women breastfeeding a child
- with HIV/AIDS
- with frequently changing sexual partners
- gay and bisexual men
- drug users
- who were in jail (no matter how long and how long ago)
- who were in Great Britain longer than 6 months between 1980 and 1986 (Creutzfeld-Jacob's disease)
- who had diarrhea or fever during the last four weeks
- who had bigger (whatever that means) operations in the last 6 months
- who had a tooth extracted the last three weeks
- who got piercings or tats the last four months
- who took Antibiotics the last few weeks (don't know how many weeks)
- who take certain psychotropic drugs
Anyway, how do they know you're gay? I mean do they actually ask for your sexual orientation when you offer to donate blood? I thought that was private!
The procedure is the following: everyone gets a card with those questions and has to check yes or no. Those who check yes on any question still get their blood drawn like all others (so that nobody notices), but the blood will either be thrown away or used for medical research, but not for transfusions.
At least the procedure is ok.