Use of assisted reproductive technology by LGBTQ people

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning people (LGBTQ community) people wishing to have children may use assisted reproductive technology. In recent decades, developmental biologists have been researching and developing techniques to facilitate same-sex reproduction.

The obvious approaches, subject to a growing amount of activity, are female sperm and male eggs. In 2004, by altering the function of a few genes involved with imprinting, other Japanese scientists combined two mouse eggs to produce daughter mice and in 2018 Chinese scientists created 29 female mice from two female mice mothers but were unable to produce viable offspring from two father mice. One of the possibilities is transforming skin stem cells into sperm and eggs.

Lack of access to assisted reproductive technologies is a form of healthcare inequality experienced by LGBT people.

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