Who n accs IVF benefs? A gay uple’s plat seeks an answer. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• THE IVF PROCS FOR GAY UPL
• IVF AND FERTILY FOR GAY COUPL
• WHO N ACCS IVF BENEFS? A GAY UPLE’S PLAT SEEKS AN ANSWER.
• FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY COUPL / SAME-SEX MALE COUPL
• IVF & SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL
• IS IVF AN OPTN FOR GAY UPL AS WELL?
• FOUR TIPS TO NAVIGATE IVF AND SURROGACY AS GAY MEN

THE IVF PROCS FOR GAY UPL

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IVF AND FERTILY FOR GAY COUPL

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WHO N ACCS IVF BENEFS? A GAY UPLE’S PLAT SEEKS AN ANSWER.

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FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY COUPL / SAME-SEX MALE COUPL

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IVF & SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL

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IS IVF AN OPTN FOR GAY UPL AS WELL?

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Women for whom havg a pregnancy may be dangero or gay men who want children may e a surrogate they know or an unknown surrogate.

FOUR TIPS TO NAVIGATE IVF AND SURROGACY AS GAY MEN

The reason, they say, are discrimatory polici that “tegorilly” shut them and other gay male upl om accsg a key fertily treatment: vro Tuday morng, Brisk and Maggipto filed a class-actn discrimatn plat agast the Cy of New York, allegg the cy ernment vlated their civil rights by refg to pay for fertily servic that were vered for women and cisgenr upl.

Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn alleg that the Cy of New York’s nial of IVF benefs to the uple and other gay male employe “nstut unlawful sex and sexual orientatn discrimatn. ) But uld also set a precent for gay and transgenr upl enunterg siar obstacl their workplac. In November 2015, a doctor gave them a ndown of the procs what served as a “preview” of the obstacl to e, said Maggipto: “This system is jt not set up to support gay men this procs.

Bee they are a gay male uple who would need to e a surrogate, Brisk and Maggipto uld not meet the creria laid out the policy’s language, the plat appealed to Cy Hall to revis the policy, argug that vlated New York State and feral anti-discrimatn laws. The Cy, then n by Blas, refed, the filg upl and dividuals lookg to start a fay have long experienced obstacl to accsg fertily treatments, said Cathy Sakimura, director of fay law at the Natnal Center for Lbian barriers n vary pendg on one’s genr inty: Gay male upl have been turned away om gettg IVF verage, while lbian upl and transgenr people have been nied IVF and other forms of fertily verage that are otherwise available to peers who are sgle, cisgenr women or male/female has to do wh the way surance polici are wrten, Sakimura said. Bee gay male upl nnot meet the creria set by the cy ernment’s health policy, “we see this as an employment discrimatn issue, ” Maggipto the uple is optimistic about their chanc to brg change to the cy’s health-re polici, Maggipto said he remas heartbroken and angry at the time they have lost: “We didn’t e to this lookg for a fight, ” he said.