I’m pleased to bring you a guest post today by Kelly Enders-Tharp of Growing Generations, a surrogacy and gamete donation agency that for 30 years has helped LGBTQ people and others to become parents. She offers a helpful overview of what LGBTQ parents may expect in the surrogacy process and some tips for getting started.
In a big win for LGBTQ and single people looking to start or grow their families, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) has just signed a bipartisan bill expanding coverage of fertility health care to be more inclusive.
Three new memoirs each offer different looks at queer parenthood, giving us nuanced explorations of selves, society, family, and what we pass on to the next generation. Add them to your summer reading list.
I had the pleasure of speaking recently with the AllPaths podcast about how my now-spouse and I started our family via reciprocal IVF in the early aughts, why I founded Mombian shortly afterwards and how it’s grown, the state of LGBTQ+ family building today, LGBTQ Families Day, and more. I hope you’ll have a listen!
Florida’s attorney general has intervened in a surrogacy case where he likened contractual surrogacy to slavery—and proposed arguments that could end surrogacy, donor conception, and adoption in the state, while threatening the legal stability of existing families created through those methods.
Millions of LGBTQ people across the U.S. could benefit from the settlement in a class action lawsuit against healthcare insurance giant Aetna, which had been improperly making LGBTQ policyholders pay more out of pocket than others for fertility services. It builds upon a previous settlement and offers nationwide enforcement.
As 2025 winds to a close, let’s look back at some of my favorite posts of the year—a year in which Mombian celebrated two decades of offering news, information, resources, and opinions for and about LGBTQ parents.
Out just in time for Trans Awareness Week, but bound to be a long-treasured resource, is an insightful, powerful, and necessary anthology that brings together essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions by and with 18 trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive birthing people, who share their experiences with conception, pregnancy, fertility treatment, birth, loss, early parenthood, and more.
Want to learn more about queer family building options? About how to protect and nurture your queer family? Or how to support queer families as a health care or social work professional? Tune in tomorrow and Wednesday to Together, a virtual conference, to hear from experts, advocates, and care providers, all while building community and connections.
My spouse and I started our path to parenthood via reciprocal IVF (my egg, her womb) in 2002—so I was surprised to find numerous places online saying that RIVF was created in 2007 or even later. For LGBTQ History Month, I dug into RIVF’s real history, going back more than 30 years.
