Surrogacy for transgender parents

We work with transgender parents building their families through surrogacy, whether single or in a relationship. Brilliant Beginnings, alongside our sibling organisation NGA Law, has championed LGBTQ+ inclusion for many years, and are proud to support transgender men and women as well as non-binary parents. Whether you need the help of a surrogate because you do not have a uterus or cannot carry a pregnancy for any other reason, we can help you.

This page covers some specific issues which arise for transgender and gender diverse intended parents, but please also see our information for different-sex parents, male same-sex parents, female same-sex parents, single dads and single mums as appropriate to your your relationship status (and in using these terms, for the avoidance of doubt, we mean identifying sex).

Fertility preservation and options for conception

If you stored eggs or sperm before transition to preserve your fertility, you may have eggs, sperm or embryos in storage available for you to use in a surrogacy process.  Alternatively you may be able to provide eggs or sperm now to create embryos to conceive a child (and if this means you will need to adjust any hormone treatments you are on it is important to seek expert medical advice).

You may need to think about finding an egg or sperm donor (or both) to help you conceive.  If you are not able to use your own genetic material (or eggs/sperm from your partner) then conceiving through surrogacy will be complicated from a UK legal perspective.  We would recommend seeking early legal advice and our sister organisation NGA Law can help you.

What parental title will I have on my child’s birth certificate?

Any child born through surrogacy is issued with a new UK birth certificate after the family court makes a parental order which records the child’s parents as his or her ‘parents’. Gender-neutral parental titles on birth certificates are therefore standard for all parents through surrogacy, and this avoids some of the difficulties which can arise for trans parents in other assisted conception situations.