The Food and Drug Administration announced on December 21, 2015 that it will replace the blanket ban with a new policy barring donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year. Meeting the main objective of this petition. However, Federal health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can donate. This still bars monogamous and married gay and bisexual men from donating blood unless they are not intimate with their male partners for one whole year.