Do LGBTQ intended parents have a longer wait time to match?

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Hi, it's Janelle Ibarra of Bright Futures Families Surrogacy with our Ask a Surrogacy Expert question, which is: Do LGBTQ parents have a longer wait time to match?

No, not necessarily. There are a lot of gestational carriers who want to help, specifically members of the LGBTQ community or just anybody they can help. So really it depends on the gestational carriers who are currently matching at the time and a lot of different factors. Because we don't go just solely based on one thing. When we're matching, there's a lot of things to consider and we try to do a really good job of making sure that we are getting to know everybody well in advance before we even present a match to the intended parents or the surrogate based on personalities and everybody's preferences, before we even say, hey, this might be a good match, are you interested in having a match meeting with this person? So as a sole piece of criteria, no, LGBTQ individuals or couples do not have a longer wait time to match based just on that.