Accessing Fertility Treatment: Challenges and Solutions for LGBTQ+ Communities

This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast explores legal, practical and other challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people seeking fertility treatment and how these might be overcome.

Is the evidence reassuring? Or are there reasons to be concerned?

The discussion is chaired by Sarah Norcross (Director of PET), with contributions from:

⚫ Kate Osborne MP (Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fertility)

⚫ Dr Carolyn Wilson-Nash (Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Retail at the University of Stirling)

⚫ Dr Jennifer Takhar (Associate Professor of Consumer Culture at Côte d'Azur University)

⚫ Michael Johnson-Ellis (Cofounder of My Surrogacy Journey and of Ethica Fertility)

⚫ Dr Susie Bower-Brown (Principal Investigator at the 'Family Beyond the Binary' research project)

⚫ Dr Chloe He (Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London)

⚫ Natalie Gamble (Director of NGA Law and Founder of Brilliant Beginnings)

PET is grateful to Born Donor Bank, Care Fertility, CooperSurgical, IBSA and the Senior Infertility Nurse Group for supporting this discussion.

PET is also grateful to Jon Nicoll, who created the opening and closing music for its podcast.

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