Parenting is universal. Children need to be provided with consistency and security. The gender of each of their parents is not what’s important. If they can provide a loving and safe environment, that is what truly matters. And all LGBT+ people should have the right to become a parent, as much as anyone else, should they choose to do so. Studies and research have again and again pointed to the fact that children of same-sex couples fare just as well or even better than the children of opposite-sex couples.
LGBT+ people can become parents through a wide variety of methods. These include current or former relationships, coparenting, adoption, donor insemination, IVF, reciprocal IVF, and surrogacy.