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Discussion on: May 17, International Day Against Homo-, Bi-, Inter- and Transphobia 🏳️‍🌈

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Feli (she/her)

I personally want to add why it’s important to me to raise awareness of such days like "International Day Against Homo-, Bi-, Inter- and Transphobia". Especially because LGBT+ people face a lot of human rights violence, which most of us don’t know about.
For example, did you know that in a lot of countries LGBT+ people are not allowed to donate blood? Some countries changed that in the past few years. Now you are allowed to donate blood if you sex at birth was male and haven’t had sex with another person who sex at birth was male for one year. That’s discrimination and wrong in so many ways.