This is Part 2 of our series on Sam and Lissa. See Part 1 here. First they hoped their doctor would be able to harvest trans man Sam’s eggs. Then they hoped the embryo created with Sam’s egg and donor sperm would result in a pregnancy for Lissa on the...
We are so proud to see so many hearts filling up the Love Comes First Family Map! If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, take a look here. And while it’s wonderful to see so many LGBTQ families across the country, we also realize that legal equality does not...
When Sam, who is trans, and Lissa, who identifies as queer, met at a New Year’s Eve party, they immediately fell in love. They also discovered that they both wanted to start a family. Sam had actually gone off hormones some years before in hopes of having a...
Exciting options for creating biological families for trans parents have emerged in the last ten years. As described by reproductive endocrinologist, Marjorie Dixon, MD, these include the ability for trans men to restart ovulation with the suppression of androgens and...
While 2016 presented some challenges for the LGBT community, including the horrific loss of lives at the Pulse Nighclub (see a moving tribute video here), and the election of a presidential ticket whose platform was called “the most anti-LGBT in the...
