The data has not yet been made available, but it should be within a couple of weeks. It was a major part of our last Sex Now survey, which was actually funded by Canadian Blood Services to study just this question. I can tell you, without giving away anything, that overwhelmingly gay men are against this policy and feel that they should be able to donate blood as others do, and that will be witnessed in the data.
To say that there's no evidence for this is not accurate. There's certainly prevalence. I mentioned that they are 131 times more likely to have HIV, so there was a reason, particularly with the blood scare and whatnot. Is there evidence today? Probably not, but we need a better solution. My issue with this—and I probably would be going against some of my colleagues on this—is that I don't think it's a political issue. I actually don't want you all deciding who gets to donate blood and who doesn't. I'd rather the professionals at Canadian Blood Services make those decisions. While I think it's important that we move towards a non-discriminatory policy—and certainly I think that looks like a gender-blind, behaviour-based screening model—I wouldn't want to see that imposed as a political decision. I think that needs to remain a public health decision.