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Contents:

• ‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
• LGBT FERTILY OPTNS FOR TRANSGENR & GAY COUPL
• PREGNANCI MORE MON AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL YOUTHS
• THIS GAY MAN IS PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S BABY
• WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• 'THE SIMS 4' MODS: GAY AND LBIAN PREGNANCY NOW AVAILABLE AS ALTERNATIVE TO ADOPTN.
• LBIAN IVF STORY – OUR BIG GAY JOURNEY
• EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER
• TRANSGENR MALE — WHO WAS IMPREGNATED BY GAY PARTNER — GIV BIRTH
• WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON

‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND

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LGBT FERTILY OPTNS FOR TRANSGENR & GAY COUPL

“For gay male sgl/upl, we have particularly easier the matchg procs, as there is no other mom 'replacg' the child’s birth mother and often get chosen quicker. Some women like the ia of havg their man rry and birth their kids, while some gay men wish they uld have kids together wh their own bodi.

” Wh marriage equaly won years ago, they expected to be able to have a nventnal married months before their weddg, a targeted ad om an anisatn lled Gay Parents to Be land Maggipto’s Instagram feed, offerg ee nsultatns wh a fertily doctor who’d give them “the whole ndown” on how they uld start a fay. “We had the appotment and we were 100% on the same page – let’s move forward wh this, ” says ’s when they first beme aware of the eye-waterg st of blogil parenthood for gay men. That meant straight people and lbians workg for the Cy of New York would have the sts of IVF vered, but gay male upl uld never be isn’t an oversight, ’s discrimatn, Brisk says.

If they w, employers and health surers across the US will be unr prsure to change their polici to give gay men the same accs to fertily benefs as anyone else. But their se has bee much bigger than one uple’s drive to start a fay: they have bee figureheads the battle for fertily rights for all gay men.

PREGNANCI MORE MON AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL YOUTHS

But brgg a fertily equaly claim that took eventual surrogacy for granted, they had unwtgly stumbled to the le of fire of one of the great culture wars of our age: whether anyone – but gay men particular – should be able to pay to e a woman’s body. In England and Wal, the number of parents g a surrogate has quadpled over the past 10 years, but is always ntroversial: high-profile gay men om Brian Dowlg to Tom Daley have been acced of exploatn, “womb rental” and even “child abe” when they go public about creatg their fai wh a surrogate.

Surrogacy always wh ser legal and ethil challeng, whether is tradnal (g the surrogate’s eggs) or gtatnal; altistic or mercial; gay or straight. ” He is referrg to the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice’s guil, but wh no official regulatn the US, there’s no pulsn for anyone to follow to the fear that gay surrogacy eras mothers, Maggipto is fiant.

THIS GAY MAN IS PREGNANT WH HIS HBAND’S BABY

“Gay men now want surance pani to treat beg born male as a disabily or as a protected tegory, one which requir paid pensatn, ” she wrote an article for a femist webse published a few days after the men filed their plat. ”Author and psychology and women’s studi profsor Phyllis Chler says ‘geic narcissism’ mak gay men want surrogacy stead of adoptn. Gay men want surrogacy stead of adoptn, she says, bee of “geic narcissism” among Chler’s papers is a py of Maggipto and Brisk’s legal plat.

“If you balance the women who uld die pregnancy, the women who uld bee fertile bee of their eggs beg harvted, who mt endure pa and loss of time a way not mensurate to what they are beg paid, agast this new sire of a gay male uple to e surrogacy as their first optn, I thk the balance of sufferg is more on the female si.

WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

Schter, 38, has given birth five tim: three tim for herself and her hband, and then twice for a gay uple om France.

She signed up to donate bone marrow, then offered to rry a baby for a iend who was stgglg wh fertily issu; when her iend cled, she went onle and found a surrogacy agency who matched her wh a gay man om the Cayman didn’t matter to her that he was sgle. She has rried two children for a gay man the Cayman Islands: ‘It was none of my DNA – I’m more like a babyster. ”‘More and more people the male gay muny are thkg of parentg at a younger and younger age, ” says Ron Poole-Dayan, executive director of Men Havg Babi.

“After the mographic disptn of the Aids panmic, gay people have bee more able and likely to form stable relatnships, that creasgly got more social regnn. Photograph: Mark Hartman/The GuardianToday, blogil fatherhood only exists for rich gay upl – or poor on. Men Havg Babi’ Gay Parentg Assistance Programme giv out more than $1m a year disunted and ee medil servic and sh grants to those ser fancial need.

'THE SIMS 4' MODS: GAY AND LBIAN PREGNANCY NOW AVAILABLE AS ALTERNATIVE TO ADOPTN.

” Jt like everyone else, the cy’s first rponse was to assume this was all about accs to they wa for a cisn, Maggipto and Brisk mt endure the heartache of watchg the children of their wealthy gay iends grow up.

Thanks to advanc reproductive technology, there are now optns for gay upl and dividuals who wish to bee parents and have a child that is blogilly related.

Freddy cid to rry his own baby after wantg to start a fay, but he faced a highly unual challenge – he is a gay transgenr man. Weltman: Like anyone selectg an egg donor, gay sgl and upl review egg donor databas and look for a young woman who meets certa crieria. Many gay upl sire two children, which se they will create embryos g the same egg donor and the blogy om each of the dads.

LBIAN IVF STORY – OUR BIG GAY JOURNEY

Whether you are gay, lbian, transgenr, or any other orientatn, choosg which fay-buildg procs is right for you n be a monumental task.

Lbian, gay, and transgenr upl all face different challeng and prospective parents need to evaluate which fay planng optn that is right for them.

Although may take a ltle more preparatn, there are still many optns for gay men who wish to bee parents. Gay upl n e assistive reproductive technologi to have a blogilly related child or n make e of donors and other optns like surrogacy to achieve their dreams of parenthood.

EVIL: GAY MEN REPORTEDLY HAVE THEIR BABY KILLED AFTER SURROGATE GETS BREAST CANCER

Sce they are unable to rry the baby on their own, male same-sex upl will need to look to other optns for gay impregnatn.

Through eher tradnal or gtatnal surrogacy, gay men n bee parents by havg a woman rry the pregnancy for them. Gay upl n choose to build their fai through adoptn and there are many paths to achievg parenthood this way. When to surrogacy and adoptn for gay pregnancy, time and mental rlience should also be taken to nsiratn.

“This is about society extendg equaly to s fal and logil ncln, ” said Ron Poole-Dayan, the founr and executive director of Men Havg Babi, a New York nonprof that helps gay men bee fathers through surrogacy.

TRANSGENR MALE — WHO WAS IMPREGNATED BY GAY PARTNER — GIV BIRTH

They argue that people — gay, straight, sgle, married, male, female — are not fertile bee their bodi refe to operate wh baby, their specific life circumstanc, like beg a man wh a same-sex partner, have renred them unable to nceive or rry a child to term whout medil terventn. ”Fertily equaly activists are askg, at a mimum, for surance pani to ver reproductive procr like sperm retrieval, egg donatn and embryo creatn for all prospective parents, cludg gay upl who e surrogat. This would clu gay men who would transfer benefs directly to their Delaware and New Hampshire there is limed surance verage for the servic, but the wrten requirements make nearly impossible for L.

Bee of juri staed bat, Capta Aguilera, who is gay, qualifi for fertily servic, like vro fertilizatn, om the U. “I am part of a whole generatn of gay men who thought they would not have kids, ” Andy Cohen, 52, the Bravo host and new father, said a phone terview, acknowledgg that he is “a privileged guy wh accs to the money and rourc need to do surrogacy. Charl Syk/Invisn, via Associated PrsBut some would-be gay male parents see this high price of parenthood as a penalty for not beg straight.

WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON

)“Part of the reason I hated to e out was bee I equated beg gay wh beg unable to have a fay, ” said Mar Leigh, the 23-year-old founr of Affordable Fai, a fertily-rights aln Connecticut.

“Sce the advanc marriage equaly, anti-gay efforts have gone two directns, attacks on transgenr rights and, like Israel, attacks on L. Netanyahu’s admistratn and s ference to ultra-Orthodox Israelis, who view legislatn that ndon homosexualy as vlatg Jewish law.

“The protts ma qutn our sense of liberalism and progrsivism as a natn, ” said Mickey Ouzen-Depas, a member of the board of the Israeli Gay Fathers Associatn.

The most vol opponents clu Gloria Steem and Deborah Glick, the first openly gay member of New York’s legislature, who view paid surrogacy as patriarchal, exploative and even ak to slavery. And though many surrogate babi are born to straight upl, some opponents of surrogacy are unfortable wh nnectg the purchasg power of men — pecially gay men — to the bodi of women.