Good for you for standing up for yourself. One day they'll realize that our blood is no different than anyone else.

Dear Karen and Mikah,

Could not help but recall that the Red Cross used to refuse the blood of people of color.

Should I get struck by a car and am bleeding out in the street, I would not care if the Good Samaritans, EMTs, nurses and doctors gender identity was.  

A friend of mine told me he would never let a doctor that was a person of color treat him. Couldn't help but ask, "would you feel the same way if it was an emergency, and no other doctor was available?"

Feel honesty is about what is true NOW, and you are a woman NOW.  My suggestion would be to donate blood elsewhere!

Your friend,

Monica

Thinking of a next time, my work host the Red Cross twice a year so will do so then and not bring up my former identity.

I don't know about the American Red Cross, but Canadian Blood Services has been pretty discriminatory in the past.

Under Canadian Blood Services' policy, trans women are men

Transgender blood donor turned away in Vancouver

I don't know if things have improved recently or not.

 Monica, I don't mean to speak ill of your friend... but I am constantly amazed that there are actually people who still think this way.

​Veronica, they will only take my blood if I register as male, not female which I will not register male. Bottom line was that I wanted to let them know about my past donations which I look back on as a mistake. If I had not mentioned that then they would now have me registered as female and have my blood.

Veronica, in regards to "Trans Triangle", it would not be so bad if I had other situations similar to this one but this one simply to me, is such a shocker that they would not waiver the gender issue for much needed blood especially with me being B- which only two percent of the population has which is listed third from the bottom of the type list.

Any ways it's complete Boba Fett (for the unknowing, this is from Star Wars)

Beings that I am a senior developer for developing web and sometimes (use to be the reverse) desktop apps I have the power to slap people like that into the ground LOL. I hear by bestow, to you the same slapping privilege if you happen to deal with this person again.

GUI dipping the right database, if they are in doubt they might come back and say "by GUI do you mean the user interface" which is stupid and if I was on the receiving end of this question I would simply say (if not the original developer) I will check into it.

Yep, B- is rare for them. Matter of fact they would call me every eight weeks to pry more out of me.

Dear Sara,

Suspect the Canadian Blood Service confuses transwomen with Gaymales.  

Bottom line, transwomen ARE women, and there are Gaymales who are in happy, monogamous relationships, and everyone is an INDIVIDUAL, and should be evaluated as such!

Your friend,

Monica