Susan Burger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The transgender male who carried his wife's baby for her has a legal
> benefit that is not available to many other women who are in a
> relationship with a woman.  By becoming a male through surgery, he is
> legally a parent to the infant that he carried and delivered even though
> he is not a genetic parent.

He is a genetic parent. Pregnancy was achieved through donor
insemination. It is his wife who is not a genetic parent.

Lara

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