"Throughout the ongoing process of IVF, we've had to neurotically spreadsheet our options and host fundraisers because the government has made access to parenthood via fertility treatment so painfully unfair. We believe that in years to come, the government will look back on this time with shame."
"We need the government's support desperately, yet we are forgotten, very much an afterthought. We will keep going, because we have to, but it's impossible to ignore how much harder this has been made because of a system that's decided queer families are less worth supporting."
A fundraiser titled 'Roles We'll Never Play: LGBTQ+ IVF Fundraiser' will be held at the Lyric Theatre on June 1 to support West End actresses Lauren Soley and Josie Kemp. The couple, who met in Les Misérables, must self-fund their IVF treatment, which costs over £35,000, due to discriminatory NHS fertility criteria. They express frustration over the unfairness of the system that favors heterosexual couples for funded treatment while neglecting same-sex couples, highlighting the emotional and financial burdens they face in their journey to parenthood.
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