LGBTQ+ Fertility

00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:08.567 The way that our clinic supports LGBTQ+ individuals 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:13.800 is by acknowledging that there's not a pathology 00:00:13.867 --> 00:00:17.840 that is preventing these individuals from becoming pregnant. 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.600 In fact, we're coming at reproduction 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.033 for LGBTQ+ individuals from a place of normalcy. 00:00:25.267 --> 00:00:29.120 It is more a logistical issue than any pathological issue. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:30.900 So it's not infertility. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:32.760 It's just fertility support. 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:38.309 Every fertility treatment that's available to cisgendered 00:00:38.467 --> 00:00:40.033 and heterosexual couples 00:00:40.367 --> 00:00:42.951 is also available to transgendered 00:00:43.167 --> 00:00:44.700 and homosexual couples. 00:00:45.967 --> 00:00:50.333 And this means everything from insemination to IVF, 00:00:51.070 --> 00:00:55.040 egg freezing, embryo freezing, sperm cryopreservation. 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:59.033 All of these technologies can benefit 00:01:00.500 --> 00:01:01.760 all of these individuals. 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.233 It's really important to us that all patients who come here 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.360 feel that they have a right to be here. 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.120 If somebody has a specific ethnic background, 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.733 if somebody has a specific religious belief, 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:17.700 if somebody has a specific sexual identity 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:21.300 or gender preference or gender identity, 00:01:21.833 --> 00:01:26.467 all of these different ways that humans present 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:30.760 are just differences in human beings. 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:33.000 And all of those different human beings, 00:01:33.267 --> 00:01:36.160 we believe, have a strong right to reproduce. 00:01:36.367 --> 00:01:39.800 So we're happy to help anybody who needs help with reproduction.