Toward Understanding Culturally Sensitive Care for Transgender Blood Donors: A Scoping Review of Health Care Provider Knowledge

Butler‐Foster, Terrie; Chin‐Yee, Ian; Huang, Mary; Jackson, Kimberley T

doi:10.1089/trgh.2019.0062

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“…There has been signi cant treatment of the equity issues at play in blood donation policies from social science and/or humanities perspectives. Aspects of equity that have been examined include sexual orientation (2,3), racialized identities/Blackness (4), and transgender identities (5,6). However, there is a dearth of peer reviewed primary scienti c literature regarding blood and plasma donation dealing with equity considerations in policy development.…”

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“…In particular, there is virtually no such research on transgender donors. However, negative and stigmatizing donation experiences are readily reported in the media (5). In addition, there is no worldwide consensus on donation eligibility criteria for transgender donors.…”

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“…Other blood operators do not report their screening for transgender donors openly (7). The male/female binary intake systems at blood centres, focus on gendered screening questions, and asking invasive questions only to transgender donors has been heavily criticized in grey literature and media (8-10) but is largely absent from academic donor policy discourse (5).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Title: Advances in blood donor policies in relation to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) and transgender populations as donors: A scoping review.

Gahagan

Haw

Butler‐Foster

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Background: Globally, the updating of donor policies in relation to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), transgender, and gender diverse populations remains an important public health issue. The purpose of this scoping review was to determine how Canada and other OECD countries are addressing this issue in relation to plasma and whole blood donation policies. Methods: The scoping review included English-language peer-reviewed empirical studies from OECD countries from 1997 to 2020 to better understand the shifts in donor policies over this time period. Initial search criteria resulted in 3,974 abstracts and titles. Researchers reviewed abstracts according to eligibility criteria which yielded a total of 51 published studies for full review. Data charting was based on Arksey and O’Malley’s framework for scoping reviews. Results: Key considerations included the reliance on mathematical modeling and behavioural risk surveillance data as a means of continuing with the status quo in informing donor policies which continue to ban sexually active gbMSM from donating. In addition, there is a lack of focus on the unique concerns facing transgender, gender diverse, and racially diverse populations who may wish to donate whole blood or plasma. Conclusions: There is a growing international policy shift in reducing the lifetime donor ban and/or removing the ban for gbMSM to donate blood. More needs to be done to both clarify the rationale for such policies in the face of current scientific evidence and testing and to ensure inclusion of transgender, gender diverse, and racially diverse populations in the formation of policies and information about both whole blood and plasma donations. Finally, blood operators need to work more closely with diverse donor communities to ensure the approach taken is in keeping with the needs of gbMSM, transgender, and gender diverse populations.

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Title: Advances in blood donor policies in relation to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) and transgender populations as donors: A scoping review.

Gahagan

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“…Registering the donor and processing of blood products at Canadian Blood Services are usually based on the donors' sex. Transgender and non‐binary donors who have not had lower genital gender‐affirming surgery are registered and their donations are managed based on the sex assigned to them at birth [4].…”

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International Forum on Gender Identification and Blood Collection: Responses

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Townsend³

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“…For blood collection organizations (BCOs), there are unique challenges relating to transgender blood donors that must be considered, and recently, there has been more focus on transgender donor issues, especially as BCOs experience an increase in donors identifying as transgender [15, 16]. One of the major system challenges at this time is the binary gender limitations of most blood establishment computer systems (BECS).…”

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confidence: 99%