OK – Do you know about the barriers affecting access to fertility services for lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, trans and queer women, trans men and nonbinary people?

ACCESS Research Team & LGBT+ Family Coalition (2024)
Fact sheet
Published on December 17, 2024
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Fact sheet outlining the barriers to accessing fertility services for lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, trans and queer women, as well as trans men and non-binary people. To start a family, these people often depend on fertility services (e.g. insemination with sperm donation, in vitro fertilization).

How to cite this publication

ACCESS Research Team & LGBT+ Family Coalition (2024). Les barrières d’accès aux services de fertilité pour les femmes lesbiennes, bisexuelles et pansexuelles, et les personnes queer, trans et non-binaires – ce que disent les études. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

  • Claudia Fournier

    PhD and Master in Community Health, bachelor in Psychology

  • Anne-Julie Belleau

    Communications coordinator

  • Emma Bouffard

    Doctoral student in psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais

  • Anna Aslett

    Master’s student in sociology at Université Laval

  • Isabel Côté

    Professor in the department of social work at Université du Québec en Outaouais

  • Kévin Lavoie

    Assistant professor in Université Laval’s school of social work and criminology and is the scientific director of the Centre de recherche Jeunes, familles et réponses sociales

Project

  • ACCESS to reproduction for LBP women and QTNB people

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