A pregnant same-sex couple. (Pexels/ Mikhail Nilov) Cis female same-sex couples will no longer face steep financial barriers to access NHS fertility treatment in a landmark shift. Until now, cis female same-sex couples in England have been forced to go through several rounds of expensive intrauterine insemination (IUI), costing some couples as much as £25,000,
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Sarah Osborne and Helen Arnold were told that they both can’t be listed on their child’s birth certificate because. (Supplied) A queer mother who was forced to adopt her own child after a registrar refused to put her on the birth certificate has won her legal battle. Sarah Osborne, 48, and Helen Arnold, 48, welcomed
Same-sex couples in Israel will no longer have to go abroad to access surrogacy. (Pexels/ Karolina Grabowska) Israel will allow surrogacy for same-sex couples, single men and trans people from next week after a decade-long legal battle. Health minister Nitzan Horowitz announced on Tuesday (4 January) that new rules making surrogacy accessible to all families
Phillip Luhl and Guillermo Delgado are fighting for Namibian citizenship for their three children (Instagram/@phillipluehl) The High Court of Namibia has granted citizenship to the son of a gay couple after a long, arduous fight. Namibian Phillip Luhl and his Mexican husband, Guillermo Delgado, fought for years to have their son Yona Luhl-Delgado recognised as
Trans dad Sav Butler is adopting a ‘gender-free’ approach to parenting (TikTok/@tired_honestly) A trans dad has eloquently explained why he isn’t revealing his baby’s gender until the child is old enough to share it for themselves. Sav Butler, 20, a father of two from Portland, Maine, has opted for a genderless parenting style with his
On the day Thomas Anderson found out he was going to be a father, he nearly fainted. He’d known from a young age that he wanted children in his future, but as a gay man he thought it was “impossible” for him. And when he entered his 30s as a single gay man, it felt