On Friday (5 November), the country’s health minister Carolina Darias signed the order that allows queer women, non-binary people, trans women and single women to receive free IVF treatments.
This isn’t the first time that the Spanish government has introduced this inclusive measure. Before 2013, the country offered free fertility treatment to all until the conservative Popular party changed the eligibility to only straight married women.
For the last six years, LGBTQ+ activists and allies have called on the government to reinstate the inclusion of queer individuals and single women within the bill’s guidelines.