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• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• TRANSGENR MAN GIV BIRTH TO BABY BOY WH GAY HBAND 'AMAZG' EXPERIENCE AFTER SUFFERG MISRRIAGE EARLIER
• GAY MAN PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S CHILD GIV BIRTH TO AN ADORABLE BABY BOY
• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

Myself and Stephan sudnly turned to a gay uple wh a baby, as opposed to me beg a pregnant man.

But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive. The procs tak about two years and sts around $200, 000 per child - and prospective gay fathers don't meet eligibily creria for most health surance plans' fertily benefs, although this is begng to change.

TRANSGENR MAN GIV BIRTH TO BABY BOY WH GAY HBAND 'AMAZG' EXPERIENCE AFTER SUFFERG MISRRIAGE EARLIER

Brent Monsr, MD, recently helped lead a study to document tails of how gay men e assisted reproductive technology to build their fai, cludg qutns such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed. As a gay person growg up a nservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about.

GAY MAN PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S CHILD GIV BIRTH TO AN ADORABLE BABY BOY

I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man. We don't take re of gay men... Your paper giv historil ntext for how shiftg attus toward LGBTQ fai have changed the climate for gay men who want to bee fathers.

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

There has been a lot of foc the scientific lerature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. A gay uple New York State recently sued, sayg those creria are discrimatory.

Why is important for the experienc of gay men seekg fertily re to be reflected the scientific lerature? Cisgenr gay men are almost never clud this rearch, so as physicians we don't know anythg about their characteristics as reproductive health patients, even basic rmatn such as their mographics, clil cisn-makg patterns or out.

Our paper ed data om one of the very few fertily benef pani that do offer fertily verage to gay men. That gave a wdow to a natnal group of 119 cisgenr men, cludg five sgle men and 57 gay upl, who uniquely had fertily benefs. It's important to keep md that our data reflect the experienc of dividuals who n afford reproductive medil re bee their employer-sponsored fertily benefs ver , and that is still an unual suatn for gay men.