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No more barriers to gay and bisexual men being sperm donors in Canada · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily. Bye there, I'm keV McGrath. Coming up the
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  Speaker 2: cost of a Rainbow pass sport first though, the last
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  Speaker 2: bit of discrimination against gay and bisexual men who want
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  Speaker 2: to be sperm downers in Canada is going. A complete
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  Speaker 2: ban on men who've had sex with other men in
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  Speaker 2: the last three months was dropped in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: but replaced with questions for everyone about their recent anal
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  Speaker 2: sex encounters. Things have gotten legal with accusations and explicit
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  Speaker 2: band had just been substituted for an implicit one. Now,
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  Speaker 2: health officials say the intrusive questions will be gone by
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  Speaker 2: the autumn or thanks to a constitutional challenge brought by disease.
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  Speaker 3: This disqualification was arbitrary. It felt like it was a
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  Speaker 3: group judgment, like anybody from that group is having risky
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  Speaker 3: sexual behavior and their disease. And that's why as a
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  Speaker 3: group as a whole, not even as you know, based
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  Speaker 3: on individual behavior or something, they're unable to donate compared
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  Speaker 3: to other individuals who might also have risky behaviors.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to CBC Radio, this of course is a lot
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  Speaker 2: to do without dated assumptions about HIV being mainly spread
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  Speaker 2: by gay men globally, that's just not the case. What's
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  Speaker 2: being referred to as advanced test kits are being introduced.
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  Speaker 2: They'll detect a range of infectious diseases, including HIV and
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  Speaker 2: hepatize to be Pride daily. Next, new guidance on the
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  Speaker 2: use of public single sex spaces in England, Scotland and Wales,
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  Speaker 2: so the likes of bathrooms and changing rooms comes into
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  Speaker 2: force today. Means transgender people should use facilities aligning with
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  Speaker 2: the biological sex, which of course is ridiculous. That may
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  Speaker 2: be gender neutral options available, but they may well not be.
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  Speaker 2: Tens of millions of pounds all need to be wasted
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  Speaker 2: thanks to this win for the cultural clowns spent on
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  Speaker 2: updating these spaces, maintaining them and changing signage. Much of
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  Speaker 2: it shelled out by councils aka taxpayers money. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the cost of Bigger Tree Pride Daily And a Russian teenager
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  Speaker 2: whose passport's got a rainbow cover has been fined a
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  Speaker 2: thousand rubles. The nineteen year old has been convicted of
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  Speaker 2: displaying extremist symbols. Anything with even the faintest whiff of
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  Speaker 2: queerness is deemed as extremists. There she was called after
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  Speaker 2: posting a picture on a telegram channel. And here's how
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  Speaker 2: utterly pathetic this is. A thousand rubles is nothing about
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  Speaker 2: nine pounds in the UK or twelve dollars in America.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have a whip round. No time to tell you
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  Speaker 2: that LGBTQ plus health services in Australia getting more than
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  Speaker 2: eighteen million dollars in government funding and staying down under.
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  Speaker 2: Queensland's got its first out Gay Governor Thomas Bradley starts
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