Your honest opinion on transgenders?

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    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That seems fair to me. 16 is a fair age in my opinion, because that is the age at when most gay people realise they are gay. Below that age, it lets the parents decide. For example, I’ve been playing 18+ video games since I was 12, and watching South Park (rated 18+ in my country) since I was 11. My parents let me. Frankly, nobody wants to read those sob stories, because they’re whiny and I cannot relate to whiny characters. Especially not children.

    Didn’t Britain used to have a similar law between 1988 and 2003? And homosexuality is still condemned by large sectors of American society despite gay marriage being legal there. So I do believe that the western opposition to this law is motivated by anti-Russian bias than logic. Now, America does have gay marriage at least. Then again, there never would have been any demand for gay marriage to be legal if cohabitating couples had the same rights as married couples, or if marriage was strictly a religious affair without any civil marriage laws, with the only government intervention being ban on child marriages or forced marriages.

    [–]usehernameredditgender 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

    Right so you're a straight girl who's a yaoi fan and you hate trans people. Lol careful not to masturbate yourself into becoming one. Of course you think that gay people should only reveal their existence in adult media if that's the only time you care to think about them.

    The blood donation law is about the price of testing kits and it isn't exclusive to gays. Europeans can't even donate blood in America because we test in batches so if one person has a disease, they have to throw out the entire batch.

    I'd advise anyone reading this to ask an actual gay person how hard it is to be gay in Russia, not a straight girl who flicks her bean to gay porn.

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      [–]usehernameredditgender 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      Never said I'm straight or a girl, also, but your guess is partially correct.

      It was obvious because you like to read stories about gay guys but don't care about them.

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        [–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

        Usehername is crying

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

        Europeans can't even donate blood in America because we test in batches so if one person has a disease, they have to throw out the entire batch.

        That can't be right.

        [–]usehernameredditgender 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

        https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/statistical-solution-testing-blood-supply-hiv

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

        Pretty sure the technology has advanced in 25 years.

        Even back then:

        However, pooling is not used in the United States because it has the resources to test each individual.

        This is something that was (is?) done in shithole African countries. The article doesn't even mention Europe. And they wouldn't just throw the whole batch out:

        If the test is positive, samples can be subdivided and retested.

        [–]usehernameredditgender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

        I didn't say Europe does it, I said Europeans can't donate blood in America (because of a risk of mad cow disease). I don't know what Europe does with donated blood.

        On second look, it appears that they only take samples of the blood and perform batch testing, so not too much of the blood is wasted if there is someone with a blood-borne disease in the pool. However, the point of this all is that tests for various diseases are incredibly expensive, and they perform batch testing to reduce the costs by using fewer tests. 8 million people donated blood last year and a single HIV test is about $50. That adds up. If someone in the batch has a disease, then they go back and test each sample individually. These costs can become massive, so they eliminate high-risk groups to save money on tests.

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

        They can't test for prion diseases. Pooling has nothing to do with it.

        [–]usehernameredditgender 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

        New method accurately detects prions in blood

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

        There's been no update since 2017. It has yet to be adopted. Also it looks like the mad cow thing is limited to UK and France.

        [–]usehernameredditgender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Europeans are banned anyway for the reason I stated.