Sex (Change) Changes Everything
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:53 pm
Talk about confusing - a man who underwent a sex change wants to have a baby with his lesbian girlfriend using sperm which he froze before the operation. The unnamed couple from London have flown to America for fertility treatment because they wish to use embryo screening to ensure the baby is a girl. This arrangement means the child will have two "mothers" even though one will actually be her biological father. Well, family campaigners aren't too happy about this situation, describing it as "abhorrent." Former Liberal Democrat MP Lord Alton said: "Trying to explain this riddle to a young child who is bound to ask 'Who am I and where do I come from?' is a recipe for confusion." The man and his girlfriend were referred to the U.S. clinic by controversial fertility expert Dr. Paul Rainsbury, one of the doctors in the middle of the fight over so-called 'designer babies'.