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Changes to Blood donation rules allow more LGBTQ+ Men to donate

Posted on Dec 17, 2020Dec 17, 2020 by Anna-Maria Pego Pineiro

Campaigners have welcomed relaxation changes to the donor health check questionnaire made by NHS blood and transplant changing blood donation across the UK to allow more gay and bisexual men to be able to donate. The new criteria now focuses...Read More

Posted in Health, LGBTQ+, News

BBC looking into racist and homophobic slurs made live on air

Posted on Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020 by Anna-Maria Pego Pineiro

Embed from Getty Images The BBC has launched an investigation into how a caller using repeated offensive language made it to air on BBC Radio London and was not taken off sooner. The caller phoned in to Sunny and Shay's...Read More

Posted in LGBTQ+, TVTagged BBC, LGBTQ+, racism, radio

Trans teen takes legal action against NHS for treatment delays

Posted on Nov 25, 2020Nov 25, 2020 by Matilda Davies

A 14-year-old trans boy being called “Reece” has begun to pursue legal action against NHS England after waiting over a year for a referral to a gender clinic with support from the Good Law Project. The Gender-Identity Development Service (GIDS),...Read More

Posted in Health, LGBTQ+Tagged BBC, BBC News, Ben Hunte, Bev Jackson, Gender-Identity Development Service, GIDS, Good Law Project, LGB Alliance, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ health, LGBTQ+ rights, NHS England, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, trans, Twitter