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• FDA SET TO BAN GAY MEN AS SPERM DONORS
• MAN WHO WANTED TO BE A SPERM DONOR TO HELP BLACK AND LGBTQ FAI SCRIB SHOCK AT RECEIVG REJECTN EMAIL BEE HE'S GAY, REPORT SAYS
• WHY GAY MEN AND OTHER GROUPS ARE BANNED OM DONATG SPERM
• A LBIAN LOST HER SON TO HIS SPERM DONOR. SHOULD OTHER GAY PARENTS BE NCERNED?
• GAY SPERM DONOR TOLD TO PAY CHILD MATENANCE FOR 'HIS' TWO CHILDREN
• I WANTED TO GET PREGNANT WH MY GAY FRIEND'S SPERM. I HAD NO IA OF THE FIGHT WE WERE IN FOR.
• SPERM DONOR FUR AFTER ‘SUPERMAN’ SAMPL WERE ED BY GAY UPL AND SGLE MUMS WINS LEGAL SE
• NEW RUL ON SPERM DONATNS BY GAYS
• 12 DEC 2012 WHO’S YOUR DADDY? HOW GAY DADS DECI WHOSE SPERM TO USE
• FDA TO BAN GAY SPERM DONORS

FDA SET TO BAN GAY MEN AS SPERM DONORS

To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Dg Admistratn is about to implement new l remendg that any man who has engaged homosexual sex the prev five years be barred om servg as an anonymo sperm FDA has rejected lls to scrap the provisn, sistg that gay men llectively pose a higher-than-average risk of rryg the AIDS vis. Crics acce the FDA of stigmatizg all gay men rather than adoptg a screeng procs that foc on high-risk sexual behavr by any would-be donor, gay or straight. “Unr the l, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex wh HIV-posive prostut would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man a monogamo, safe-sex relatnship is not OK unls he’s been celibate for five years, ” said Leland Traiman, director of a clic Alameda, Calif., that seeks gay sperm donors.

Although there is disagreement over whether the FDA guile regardg gay men will have the force of law, most doctors and clics are expected to observe .

MAN WHO WANTED TO BE A SPERM DONOR TO HELP BLACK AND LGBTQ FAI SCRIB SHOCK AT RECEIVG REJECTN EMAIL BEE HE'S GAY, REPORT SAYS

It is likely to affect some lbian upl who want a child and prefer to e a gay man’s sperm for artificial sematn. “There’s a steadily creasg trend of heterosexual transmissn of HIV, and yet the FDA still has this notn that you protect people by puttg gay men out of the pool.

WHY GAY MEN AND OTHER GROUPS ARE BANNED OM DONATG SPERM

Prospective donors — gay or straight — would be rejected if they had engaged unprotected sex the prev 12 months wh an HIV-posive person, an illegal dg er, or “an dividual of unknown HIV stat outsi of a monogamo relatnship. ”But an FDA spokwoman ced FDA documents suggtg that officials felt the broar excln was pnt even if affected gay men who practice safe sex.

'You n't be too reful'Many doctors and fertily clics already have been rejectg gay sperm donors, cg the pendg FDA l or existg regulatns of the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice. ”However, some sperm banks, notably California, have weled gay donors.

The director of one of them, Alice Ruby of the Oakland-based Sperm Bank of California, said her staff had veloped procr for intifyg gay men wh an acceptably low risk of men are a major donor source at Traiman’s Rabow Flag sperm bank, and he said that practice would ntue spe the new l. 'Directed' gay sperm donors OKThe FDA l do not prohib gay men om servg as “directed” sperm donors.

A LBIAN LOST HER SON TO HIS SPERM DONOR. SHOULD OTHER GAY PARENTS BE NCERNED?

If a woman wishg to bee pregnant knows a gay man and asks that he provi sperm for artificial sematn, a clic uld provi that service even if the man had engaged sex wh other men wh five years.

However, Traiman said some lbian upl do not have a gay iend they know and tst well enough to be the blogil father of their child, and would th prefer an anonymo Deborah Cohan, an obstetrics and gynelogy stctor at the Universy of California, San Francis, said some lbians prefer to receive sperm om a gay donor bee they feel such a man would be more receptive to the ncept of a fay head by a same-sex uple. A gay man was surprised to fd this out when he was rejected om donatg sperm, per The Washgton Post. A 26-year-old gay man was shocked to receive a rejectn email om a sperm bank after he provid a semen sample, acrdg to The Washgton reason TreVghn Roach-Carter was prohibed om donatg his sperm was that he said he is gay.

(The FDA do not bar gay men om beg "directed" sperm donors, which is when the recipient knows the donor. There is a highly selective procs for sperm donatn, which generally favors donors wh higher tn, said Jaime Shamonki, the chief medil officer at California Cryobank, per The his return 2020, he was rejected the day after he donated semen bee he had dited that he was gay his applitn. The reasong was that the medil lerature, cg data om the height of the HIV/AIDS epimic, said that gay men were at a higher risk of the time, human rights groups challenged the logic behd .

GAY SPERM DONOR TOLD TO PAY CHILD MATENANCE FOR 'HIS' TWO CHILDREN

"It's unsafe and unfair to allow a straight man who regularly has unprotected sex wh multiple partners to donate sperm, but not a gay man who practic safe sex wh a monogamo relatnship, " said Joe Solmone, former print of the Human Rights Campaign, per a 2005 prs Post not that donor sperm is quaranted for six months and tted for HIV before reach the FDA told the newspaper that has no immediate plans to elimate the ban. The reason: He checked a box for beg gay, and Food and Dg Admistratn regulatns prohib anonymo sperm donatns om men who have had sex wh men the past five years. A Washgton Post analysis found Black sperm donors reprent ls than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the untry’s four largt a gay Black man, Roach-Carter said he chose to donate sperm part to aid other LGBTQ upl tryg to build fai.

Seattle Sperm Bank said turned away a “really great ndidate” the sprg bee he disclosed he was gay. ” Some legal experts, like Mter, argue that this cisn alone should be enough to guarantee gay married upl the same parental rights as their straight years later, June 2017, the high urt led Pavan v.

In September 2018, acrdg to urt documents, Wilson entered a “Known Sperm Donor Agreement” wh Vghn before the nonmedil sematn of Wilson took place December of that pair chose Vghn to be their sperm donor bee they believed he was gay, and he had a boyiend at the time, Williams said. She said she had hoped Vghn uld have a “guncle” (gay uncle) relatnship wh the child. A gay man om Essex who donated his sperm to enable a lbian uple to have two children, but who was never named on their birth certifite and had no role their upbrgg, is beg forced by the Child Support Agency to pay for their support – 13 years after the first child was Langridge, who has been wh his partner for 16 years (and a civil partnership for the last five), has lled on the ernment to review the law after the CSA sudnly mand that he start payg £26 a week for two children he technilly fathered over a has had no ntact wh the fay sce 2004, but the CSA said that he has to eher pay up, or take a DNA tt to show that he is not their natural story will send shivers down the spe of any man who was asked to donate their sperm by a childls woman the then was impossible for women to e official sperm banks unls they had a male partner – somethg that is no longer the se.

I WANTED TO GET PREGNANT WH MY GAY FRIEND'S SPERM. I HAD NO IA OF THE FIGHT WE WERE IN FOR.

The thor 2018, around the time when she'd received a surprisg ll om her thor 2018, around the time when she'd received a surprisg ll om her to the procs of tryg to bee pregnant wh my gay iend’s sperm, I got a phone ll that changed everythg.

SPERM DONOR FUR AFTER ‘SUPERMAN’ SAMPL WERE ED BY GAY UPL AND SGLE MUMS WINS LEGAL SE

Makg e of that apparent eedom, moreover, had felt like a rponsibily: somethg I owed the women before me, like my gay mother, who, after two closeted s, had fally left her heterosexual marriage. I certaly wouldn’t suggt that risks shouldn’t be migated, or that male donors shouldn’t, when relevant, be asked to plete medil treatment before donatg sperm, but the unstated assumptn seemed to be that gay men are unlikely ever to be ee of such fectn. Even a liberal cy like Seattle, where I live, our lol sperm bank nnot allow a sexually active gay man to donate at their labs regardls of specific health history, due to the same FDA policy.

NEW RUL ON SPERM DONATNS BY GAYS

But we were ― a sgle woman wh a lovg gay iend. And unr the prsur of such polici, I realized that people like me — wh one gay and one straight parent — are effectively beg elimated om our untry’s future. I didn’t yet know, for stance, that our lol sperm bank’s excln of gay donors is nsistent wh that of sperm banks across the untry, spe the need for more BIPOC sperm donors and ongog updat to regulatns on blood donatn by gay men.

12 DEC 2012 WHO’S YOUR DADDY? HOW GAY DADS DECI WHOSE SPERM TO USE

Instead, sperm banks still cle to accept gay donors, cg the same FDA policy that had challenged me and that my fertily clic had eventually found a way — at least wh rpect to my “known donor” — to work a time, though, I didn’t have to thk about all that. By Rachel AielloOTTAWA (CTV Network) -- A gay man is takg the feral ernment to urt, challengg the nstutnaly of a policy rtrictg gay and bisexual men om donatg to sperm banks Canada, CTV News has learned. "[It's] like you're unsirable bee of your gayns as a donor … It feels like such an arbrary le, " said Aziz M, the man who is phg to change the l.

Currently, a Health Canada directive prohibs gay and bisexual men om donatg sperm to a sperm bank unls they've been abstent for three months or are donatg to someone they the "Safety of Sperm and Ova Regulatn, " sperm banks operatg Canada mt em the prospective donors "unsuable, " spe all donatns beg subject to screeng, ttg and a six-month quarante before they n be 's a blanket policy that the Toronto man brgg the lawsu says mak him feel like a "send-class cizen, " bee stops any gay or bisexual man who is sexually active om donatg, even if they are a long-term monogamo relatnship. "Why I cid to take this to urt is bee of that feelg of discrimatn, ” said and his lawyers are challengg the directive—filed wh the Superr Court of Ontar January—on the basis that vlat the right to equaly the Charter of Rights and se is seekg to strike out the provisn the policy that specifilly appli to men who have sex wh men, acrdg to the applitn mencg se has ught the attentn and has the fancial backg of Canada's Court Challeng Program, an pennt anizatn that supports dividuals brgg s related to nstutnal rights that are of natnal filg alleg that the current policy "perpetuat stereotypil attus and prejudic agast gay and bisexual men, cludg false assumptns about their health, their sexual practic, and their worths to participate child nceptn.

"It is not unmon for a lot of gay and lbian upl to rely on sperm donors wh the muny, and this directive explicly puts a barrier, addn to all the other barriers that exist for queer fai, havg children, " Ko said.

FDA TO BAN GAY SPERM DONORS

In the s, sexually active gay and bisexual men n donate so long as the recipient signs a se foc on the first is uniquely posned brgg this nstutnal challenge, as prr to g out as a gay man, he donated to a sperm bank Toronto several tim between 2014 and 2015 whout unrgog the rigoro screeng and ttg that donors Canada are subject to unr the Assisted Human Reproductn Act, which clus pre- and post-donatn fect disease ttg, his sperm was ma available to the a rult, a lbian uple was able to have a dghter, whose life Aziz now plays a role . Mister has power to change: LawyerThe lawsu argu that the feral health mister has the power to issue a directive to change the policy as appli to men who have sex wh men, jt as the Liberal ernment did a few years ernment brought forward the current policy 2019—requirg gay and bisexual men to observe a three-month ferral perd before beg able to donate—and me to effect Febary change was a marked update om what had been a lifetime ban datg back s stemmg om ncerns over HIV transmissn. "There's never been any science behd the ban on gay men donatg sperm, none whatsoever … People tell me they're workg on , but they've been tellg me they've been workg on this for over five years, " said NDP MP Randall Garrison, the party's cric for jtice and LGBTQ2S+ rights.

We need gay sperm donors.