Can Gay Men Get Pregnant? - Classified Mom

Contents:

• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• CAN GAY MEN GET PREGNANT?
• GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

A gay or transgenr person’s optns for parentg clu:.

Or, let’s say we have a gay cisgenr uple, Alex and Zack. Others may be ncerned that sgle men or gay male upl would have a harr time adoptg jt bee they are men, but this may not be te. “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.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

This is thanks large part to the growg number of adoptn and surrogacy optns available to gay upl today, pared to what was available a ago. Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re.

And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy.

However, is still not possible for a gay uple to have a child g DNA om both fathers. Alex Kroghlian, director of the Natnal LGBT Health Edutn Center at Fenway Health, which t health re anizatns on how to re for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. ”That msage often don’t translate to the populatn that needs Coleman, a gay transgenr man — meang his genr is trans male and his sexual orientatn, somethg separate and different, is gay — is father to two dghters, 9 and 2, and has been on ttosterone for 14 years.

CAN GAY MEN GET PREGNANT?

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. 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.

GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

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.