4 facilities in Japan give reproductive assistance to LGBT couples: survey

Four medical facilities in Japan have provided assisted reproductive treatment for lesbian and transgender couples against the guidelines set in the medical academy, a survey showed Sunday.Under the guidelines, artificial insemination with donor sperm and sperm freezing are, in principle, allowed only for cancer patients and couples legally married in Japan.Two of the four medical facilities have used sperm from a third person to artificially inseminate lesbian couples, while three of the four have frozen and stored sperm taken from people identified as male at birth before they had gender …READ FULL ARTICLE