Gender selection IVF and gender disappointment are two taboo topics in the UK but shouldn’t be. Gender disappointment is the feeling of sadness that occurs when you find out your baby's sex is the opposite of what you were hoping for, it can range from mild to severe but it’s a very real and raw psychological feeling. It’s not about being ungrateful for the sex of the child/children you have but about the sex you don’t have, whatever the underlying feeling surrounding the disappointment may be. 

If you Google gender disappointment you’ll find across pages after pages of men and women secretly reaching out for support online after being disappointed with the gender of their child, whilst ultimately the most we are ‘allowed’ to hope for is a healthy child most admit they’d be lying if they said they weren’t hoping for a boy or a girl for one reason or another.  

Thousands of families across the globe have undergone IVF gender selective treatment and with it being illegal in this country unless for medical grounds - UK parents are forced to travel to the likes of America or Northern Cyprus to make their dreams to come true.

The proposal being is that the UK should consider allowing gender selection IVF for family balancing purposes, for example a family consisting of 2 girls already where the parents long for a son but don’t want to allow the fates to decide. Ultimately we should as women be able to have some control over our bodies, not to compare the two but abortion in the UK is legal up to the point where the baby is very nearly fully developed and quite rightly we are pro choice. I believe we should have the opportunity to choose to balance our families if we so wish without the astronomical cost of travelling overseas we could undergo the treatment safely in our own Country. 

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