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TAIWAN EMERG AS NEW MARKET FOR LGBT+ SURROGACY AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LAW
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Our anizatn will ntue to promote LGBTQ fay rights through policy and laws, particular seekg to legalize gay adoptn and artificial sematn for sgle dividuals or same-sex upl.
"Before I moved to the rental hoe, my landlord told me a handsome guy is livg here, but he's straight, " said Mr Tsou, host of the My Gay Marriage podst. Unfortunately for Mr Tsou and his hband, 's their only optn bee, while gay marriage is now legal Taiwan, adoptn by married gay upl is not.
Taiwane law allows sgle dividuals — whether they are gay or not — to adopt children, but not same-sex married exceptn exists when one person the uple is the blogil parent of the child. Li Hsuan-Pg says allowg gay upl to adopt may also be the bt terts of children. Advocy groups are llg on the ernment to make adoptn and assisted reproductn technologi easier for gay upl.
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Mr Tsou said cludg gay upl the Assisted Reproductn Act would benef people like him — would mean he uld have a child his own untry.
TAIPEI (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - On Geofey Li’s 40th birthday last year, he put asi his dream of an early retirement on an idyllic island and stead cid to raise a child Taiwan g a surrogate Southeast and his hband - whose tw boys are now three months - are among an creasg number of gay upl Taiwan beg parents through surrogacy even though the procre is illegal on the self-led island emed a wayward provce by beme the first place Asia to legalize gay marriage May and more than 2, 000 same sex upl have sce wed, promptg a sh of mercial surrogacy agenci to head to Taiwan to help more LGBT+ upl seekg to start fai. Conservative groups, such as the Coaln for the Happs of Our Next Generatn, have actively mpaigned agast LGBT+ parentg and marriage although two-thirds of Taiwane voters - about 7 ln people - opposed changg the untry’s civil to regnize same-sex marriage a 2018 referendum, parliament May passed a law legalizg gay FRONTIERUnr current laws, same-sex upl n only adopt children who as blogilly related to at least one of them, wh activists markg this as one of the next ontiers the fight for LGBT+ equaly on the island of 23 ln Taiwan LGBT Fay Rights Advocy (TLFRA) group said they were ntact wh at least 300 “rabow fai” and expected the number of same-sex parents to rise as the new gay marriage law spurred visibily and acceptance. “Part of the (LGBT+) muny is celebratg, while part of the muny has a lot of fightg to do, ” said Chu Chiajong, admistrative secretary of the was been enuraged by the arrival of mercial surrogacy agenci maly om the Uned Stat Taiwan where hundreds of gay upl are willg to pay up to $140, 000 to start a fay - almost 10 tim the average annual is no legislatn ncerng surrogacy at the feral level the Uned Stat and some stat allow mercial surrogacy Havg Babi, a New York-based non-prof that helps gay men bee fathers through surrogacy, hosted s first nference for prospective Asian gay parents the Taiwane pal, Taipei, 320 people attend, forcg the anizers to requt a space twice the size of the room origally booked.
“The reason we are dog the surrogacy thg is bee is the only optn for , ” he Taiwane upl opt for legal surrogacy “grey areas” such as Cambodia, which has no laws agast surrogacy, or Rsia, where surrogacy is legal for straight upl and sgle women who are medilly unable to nceive a child a lack of clear regulatns n create problems when leavg the untry or registerg the child Taiwan, acrdg to Mei-nu, a lawmaker for the lg Democratic Progrsive Party, said Taiwane society remaed divid on the issue of LGBT+ parentg wh some groups sayg children need both a male and a female parent to velop she said allowg gay marriage had “opened a door” for same-sex fai.