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Let's go to Marty in Westchester.

Marty, how you doing?

Good morning.

Yes, Marty.

I just had an unbelievable experience at a Red Cross blood donation center where I've been going since before COVID.

I go every two months to give blood.

They refuse to take my blood today unless I declared to them if I was a man or a woman.

And I've been putting up with this like the last two years and it looks at them like i'm you

know i'm i'm i'm six foot four i have a hair on my face i'm a big hairy guy do you really need

to ask me that ridiculous question i hope i just hope you're a man because you'd be one hideous

woman i just hope you're it was it's so stupid it's so

ridiculous i said you know what i'm not i'm not doing this anymore it's ridiculous look at me and

tell me what i am and the woman came over to me says you have to say it i said i'm not saying she's

you have a nice way so where was this exactly which Which center? Larchmont.

The Larchmont what, Red Cross?

It's the Red Cross Donation Center at Larchmont, the Foreign Legion in Larchmont.

They set up a center there.

It wouldn't take my blood unless I declared to them if i was a man or a woman all right that is

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