'"By restricting gay and bisexual men, and other LGBTQ people, who have recovered from COVID-19 from donating plasma, the FDA is severely limiting the health care industry's ability to explore potentially lifesaving treatment for COVID-19," she said. GLAAD launched a petition to repeal the policy last month.'
Severely? Not unless the LGBTQ-Alphabet population is at least a third of the total population, and even in New York that's hardly likely.
As to the restrictions on giving blood, they can go pound sand: I can't ever give blood either, and that comes from simply being in England for 3+ weeks during their mad Cow disease scare in the mid/late 1980's.
Nor can I because of the chemo I had for my cancer treatments.