In lots of circles to be gay and have children

People have made arguments for homosexuality being partly genetic because this isn’t uncommon. There has been a lot of focus in the scientific literature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. As a young person, it was really hard to find that information.

There's no data to suggest anything detrimental to children about having gender- or sexual-minority parents. “It’s not always easy to choose the course that’s right for you,” Insogna says. There was nothing at the library and very little on the internet, but I figured it probably would involve a doctor.

Counseling, mental health, and family planning There’s a lot to think about when creating family, from the health of parents to options like adoption, surrogacy, egg freezing, fertility preservation for transgender individuals, and reproductive treatment.

There has been a lot of focus in the scientific literature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. I don't know that I want to have children, but I didn't want someone to tell me I couldn't. I asked them how I could start a family as a gay man.

Similar percentages of cisgender men (39%), cisgender women (41%), and transgender participants (43%) said that they wanted to have. Men's Health August 12, Stanford physicians have published the first study of gay men's experiences with using assisted reproductive technology to have children.

Most work in reproductive medicine has focused on infertile, cisgender heterosexual women. In my own field, the professional organization that sets practice guidelines for fertility doctors says everyone should have access to fertility care.

So I went looking into how I might build a family. This was around 20 years ago; I'm 35 now. Growing up in a conservative family, being gay was a sin, and gay people having children was out of the question, but sometimes we must break traditions.

But there are still barriers. But for gay men, this process is complicated and expensive. Not only is it now socially OK for LGBTQ people to have children but there are also people now advocating for LGBTQ. Seeing it through involves collaboration with a fertility doctor, a lawyer, a gestational carrier a.

I’ve known families with multiple gay children, and at the same time I know twins where one is gay and the other is straight. They explained the whole process; it was super complicated. In graduate school at Johns Hopkins, before I went to medical school, I worked with fertility doctors.

Most people hoping to become parents envision having children who are genetically related to them. Monseur, who is completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Medicine in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, spoke with me about the research, which appeared Aug.

As a gay person growing up in a conservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about. We don't take care of gay men The simplest way to put it is that LGBTQ families have shifted from being a paradox to a possibility.

We went from being criminalized and pathologized to more accepted. There's no data to suggest anything detrimental to children about having gender- or sexual-minority parents.

Sexual identities and reproductive

Many institutions whose fertility clinics didn't previously treat everyone — including Johns Hopkins, where I went to grad school — now do so. Some fertility clinics in this country still won't take care of LGBTQ patients, and most health insurance plans that offer fertility benefits use a clinical definition of infertility based on a heterosexual couple trying to conceive for 12 months with no pregnancy.

A gay couple in New York State recently sued, saying those criteria are discriminatory. A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that 41% of married same-sex couples under the age of 50 surveyed expressed a desire to have children—or additional children—in the future.

Brent MonseurMD, recently helped lead a study to document details of how gay men use assisted reproductive technology to build their families, including questions such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed.