Gay Men and Fertily: How to Get Started | PNWF

Contents:

• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• CALIFORNIA MOV TO PROVI SURROGAT TO GAY MALE UPL THE NAME OF 'FERTILY EQUALY'
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY GEN BOOST FERTILY
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• GAY MALE UPL FACE MORE CHALLENG, HIGHER STS TO START A FAY
• FERTILY OPTNS FOR GAY MEN MAKE BLOGIL PARENTHOOD POSSIBLE
• LGBT FERTILY OPTNS FOR TRANSGENR & GAY COUPL
• COMMON MEDITNS, SUPPLEMENTS, AND GAY MALE FERTILY
• FERTILY ANSWERS EXPLOR FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY MEN

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

We uldn’t be more proud to offer gay and lbian upl optns to build their fai wh the help of fertily you ci to let help you start a fay, you and your partner will have an ial nsultatn wh one of our physicians. Fertily Procs for Gay Coupl Gay men planng to build a fay through fertily treatments will meet wh their physician to discs the tails of g an egg donor and gtatnal rrier. “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.

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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

CALIFORNIA MOV TO PROVI SURROGAT TO GAY MALE UPL THE NAME OF 'FERTILY EQUALY'

Bee of juri staed bat, Capta Aguilera, who is gay, qualifi for fertily servic, like vro fertilizatn, om the U. ”“But what about gay men? “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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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.

)“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. “Opponents will say, ‘We’re not homophobic.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

GAY GEN BOOST FERTILY

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. There has been a lot of foc the scientific lerature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

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.

GAY MALE UPL FACE MORE CHALLENG, HIGHER STS TO START A FAY

Our paper ed data om one of the very few fertily benef pani that do offer fertily verage to gay men.

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. 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.

FERTILY OPTNS FOR GAY MEN MAKE BLOGIL PARENTHOOD POSSIBLE

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.

LGBT FERTILY OPTNS FOR TRANSGENR & GAY COUPL

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

COMMON MEDITNS, SUPPLEMENTS, AND GAY MALE FERTILY

When a uple is gay or lbian, they’re missg at least one sential piece of the nceptn puzzle. Instead, most gay upl e a donor egg and a gtatnal rrier, or surrogate, who uld be a iend, fay member, or a woman the uple fd through an agency.

Two s ago, many gay upl had to pretty much fo havg their own children bee fertily optns weren’t available to them.

FERTILY ANSWERS EXPLOR FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY MEN

“That was our ‘cross to bear, ’” Leondir now, gay and lbian upl face emotnal, fancial, and legal hurdl.

”Jt fdg a fertily clic that works wh gay and lbian upl n be challengg.

Clics the Midwt and South were ls likely to be clive than were clics the Northeast and a clic that’s experienced the procr lbian and gay upl e to nceive is important. Insurance verage often don’t kick until a uple has had unprotected sex for at least 12 months whout nceivg, which leav out gay and lbian upl. Gay men require both an egg donor and a rrier for the pregnancy.