Use of assisted reproductive technology by LGBTQ people

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

LGBTQ people who wish 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 first attempt towards same-sex reproduction involved the investigation of haploid embryonic stem cells, which would allow for the development of female sperm and male eggs. In 2004, by altering the function of a few genes involved with imprinting, Japanese scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture combined two mouse eggs to produce daughter mice. In 2018, Chinese scientists created 29 female mice from two female mouse 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. In 2023, Japanese scientists created viable mouse pups using eggs artificially derived from male cells, which were fertilized with sperm from another male.

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