Teen's eye donation rejected because he was gay

[Yo_Mama]

7. No, it's because such organs carry higher contagion risks.

Statistically, that is.

With a live organ donor, one can ask the patient questions to determine real risk. With a dead donor, you don't have that option.

This is the relevant portion of the FDA guidelines. They use a five-year MSM exclusion:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/Tissue/ucm073964.htm#DONORSCREENING1271.75

You have to assume that the poor kid had sex with another guy within those five years.

Other exclusions are persons who have been in detention for more than 72 hours in the preceding year. Most persons with a neurological problem or dementia problem. Persons who spent at least three months in the UK between 1980 and 1996, and most persons who have lived for at least three months in Europe for the contagion period.

Since the first licensed HIV Type O test, some of the restrictions in the guidance linked above are suspended if the screening center uses a licensed HIV Type O sensitive test:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/Blood/ucm180817.htm