Social networks report that representatives of the LGBT community have been banned from donating blood. As evidence, users provide data from the website of the Ternopil Regional Blood Service Center regarding contraindications to donation. Homosexual relations were introduced into the so-called form of “risky behavior” and as a result such persons were “banned” from donating blood.

VoxCheck analysts investigated that the official website of the Ternopil Regional Blood Service Center actually published information about the list of diseases, contraindications to donation and forms of risky behavior. Among the contraindications there is no category of representatives of the LGBT community. Although the web archive preserved the previous version of the page (for 2023), which actually indicated the prohibition of donation due to homosexual relationships.

A representative of the LGBT community could not always become a blood donor. Only in 2021, this category was removed from the criteria for contraindications to donation. Homosexual relations have been classified as a form of risky sexual behavior, which in fact can be inherent in any person.