Berl Conference on Parentg Optns for European Gay Men

Contents:

• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• EGG DONATN FOR GAY MEN N MAKE THE DREAM OF FATHERHOOD E TE
• THE GAY PARENTG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (GPAP) OF MEN HAVG BABI
• EGG DONATN FOR GAY COUPL
• GAY PARENTGWHAT OPTNS ARE AVAILABLE FOR GAY INTEND PARENTS?
• FAY BUILDG FOR GAY MEN FAQS
• MHB 2023 CENTRAL EUROPE CONFERENCE - PARENTG OPTNS FOR EUROPEAN GAY MEN

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

IVF and egg donatn selectg an egg donor om our Michigan Egg Bank and a gtatnal rrier for gay male upl and sgle men. Fay Buildg for Gay Men.

Fay buildg for gay men requir IVF wh the e of a gtatnal rrier and an egg donor.

EGG DONATN FOR GAY MEN N MAKE THE DREAM OF FATHERHOOD E TE

The embryo is created through IVF g an egg of a different woman, an anonymo or known egg donor, and the sperm of one of the gay male partners, a known sperm donor. We are regnized by the Human Rights Campaign for our mment and expertise providg accs to re for gay, lbian and trans patients a safe and profsnal Health Care Equaly Top PerformerThe RMA Network is proud to receive the veted signatn “LGBTQ Healthre Equaly Top Performer” HRC Foundatn’s Healthre Equaly Inx. Optns for Gay MenGay men have the optn of egg or embryo donatn bed wh gtatnal surrogacy.

While ’s only possible to e the sperm om one man to fertilize any given egg, some gay upl choose to do spl sematn, which half of the eggs are put wh one man’s sperm and the other half are put wh the other man’s sperm.

THE GAY PARENTG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (GPAP) OF MEN HAVG BABI

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer Parents to Be.

LGBT Fay BuildgGay & Lbian Fertily Optns at San Diego Fertily CenterSan Diego Fertily Center believ that everyone who wants to build a fay should be able to do so, and that every child serv the chance to be born to a lovg home. Failure to achieve a pregnancy after multiple IUI attempts uld dite a fertily issue that will need to be Fertily Optns / Same-Sex Male Fay BuildgGay upl wantg to have a baby n through gtatnal surrogacy. It is ed for lbian upl who are havg trouble nceivg through IUI, and for gay upl who want to build a fay through surrogacy g their own sperm.

IVF is an sential part of the procs of surrogacy for gay upl.

EGG DONATN FOR GAY COUPL

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.

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. I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man.

GAY PARENTGWHAT OPTNS ARE AVAILABLE FOR GAY INTEND PARENTS?

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. 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.

FAY BUILDG FOR GAY MEN FAQS

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.

MHB 2023 CENTRAL EUROPE CONFERENCE - PARENTG OPTNS FOR EUROPEAN GAY MEN

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. This data served as the foundatn for a grant applitn we've jt had approved to nduct a much larger populatn study that will give accs to rmatn on about 2, 000 embryo transfers annually gay men. A lot of people see a fertily doctor bee they have an unrlyg medil issue, whereas gay male upl ually have two possible sperm sourc, a young egg donor and a gtatnal rrier who has already had succsful pregnanci.

I thk that, bee of the medil factors, birth rat for gay upl uld serve as a morn standard for evaluatg the succs of IVF labs. We regnize that this may be bee a lot of gay men requt tws or may ultimately want two children, and fertily doctors may be transferrg two embryos to try to save their patients money so they only have to go through the fertily treatment procs once.

But we need to ask: Are we puttg gtatnal rriers at unnecsary risk om tw pregnanci, and puttg gay upl at unnecsary risk of havg babi the NICU?

Before I was an OB/GYN, I thought, "This is a health accs issue, and if gay men want tws we should rpect their tonomy. What do add to have physician-scientists like you, who are gay, answerg rearch qutns about this populatn of prospective parents?

I'm currently a fellow, and I have patients g specifilly to see me, not bee I'm the most amazg doctor but bee I'm gay, and they want a gay doctor. Fertily Specialists of Texas is a statn for gay fay buildg servic, cludg egg donatn and surrogacy. We believe that everyone serv the chance to bee a parent, so our team supports gay fay buildg.

Gay fay buildg volv different profsnals who help make parenthood possible.