Can a gay man get pregnant

You do not have to live in the local authority you apply to, and you can be single. Surrogacy is when someone has a baby for people who cannot, or choose not to, get pregnant themselves. Surrogacy is legal in the UK, but it's illegal to advertise for surrogates and the surrogate cannot be paid a fee.

Having a baby if you're LGBT+

To conceive, a person will need to stop the use of testosterone. Kaci, a 30 year-old trans man who has undergone two pregnancies, says that many doctors falsely tell people that starting testosterone will make them infertile. Take the results of one report , for example.

Ways to become a parent if you're LGBT+

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Is there much convincing that needs to be done? Particularly at the moment, with the rise in transphobia. It just so happened that the time I was trying to conceive and carry coincided with the rise of anti-trans rhetoric around reform of the Gender Recognition Act. Last year, the government opened a public consultation on proposed changes to the act that would allow trans people to self-identify bringing the UK into line with countries such as Denmark and Ireland.