The rules, originally introduced to decrease the risk of blood donations from groups with a higher chance of HIV exposure
Hasn't it been super easy to test for HIV for ages now? If they truly cared, they would just test for it, with an extra bonus being that anyone donating blood who don't know they have HIV can actually find out and get treatment. They already test donors for blood type to avoid having people misreport their types. This seems like more of a revisionist excuse to cover up the original homophobic reasons for the ban, i.e. preventing "pure, straight, god fearing Christians from being contaminated with demonic gay blood" or something.