In gestational surrogacy, donor eggs from another female are fertilized with the man’s sperm in the embryology lab.
In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is inseminated with the man’s sperm and is the biological mother of the child. In order to have a biological child, a gay man needs a female surrogate who will carry the baby. Here are some basics to help gay men understand how they can have a biological child through surrogacy. who are raising children, biological or adopted. Gary Gates, a demographic expert with the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, estimates that there are 40,000 gay male couples in the U.S. The good news is that there are ways to overcome many of these barriers. Gay men face more challenges in becoming parents than any other group, both biological and financial.