A new Spanish government order has been hailed for breaking fresh ground in Europe by extending equal rights to state-funded in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to lesbians, transgender and non-binary people, who do not identify as either male or female. “We’re finally equal before the law.
Or, at least, a little more equal,” Gonzalez, 38, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call from Madrid. “But we also know that we’re privileged here in Spain, compared to other countries in Europe,” she said, adding that she and her wife now planned to start fertility treatment.
Same-sex marriages or civil unions are legal in about 30 European nations, but legislation letting LGBTQ+ people have children – either through adoption, surrogacy or sperm