Many non-Indigenous people will be acknowledging Orange Shirt Day for the first time this year.
So I wanted to share a few important points / thoughts:
5.) This is still happening - itโs only changed forms.
The fact that an Indigenous parent can be punished for not having the right income to support their child(ren) but a foster family can be supplemented income to โtake careโ of a child is obnoxious - but deliberate.
5โฃ Gay men can safely donate blood.
๐ซ The stigma that came with the HIV/AIDS epidemic led to bans, which remain in many countries.
๐ฉธ With testing and risk assessments, nations including ๐ฎ๐น and ๐ฒ๐ฝ have collected blood from gay men for years. https://t.co/PFo5FT3bIL