‘The Assessment’ Movie: Parallels for Queer Intended Parents
Bryan McColgan, MD Bryan McColgan, MD

‘The Assessment’ Movie: Parallels for Queer Intended Parents

‘The Assessment’ is a new movie staring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen set in a not too distant, dystopian future where having children has striking similarities to what queer intended parents have to go through today. In this article, I discuss these similarities, and how my husband and I experienced the movie while currently on our first journey to fatherhood through IVF and surrogacy. Warning: Movie spoilers ahead.

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How Close are We to Becoming ‘The Pod Generation’ and How Would This Affect Queer Intended Dads?
Bryan McColgan, MD Bryan McColgan, MD

How Close are We to Becoming ‘The Pod Generation’ and How Would This Affect Queer Intended Dads?

The ‘Pod Generation’ is a movie that dives into the not-to-distant future to explore what it would be like to have a child through an artificial womb, or pod. How close are we to this technology? In this article, I dive into the most recent science to see when (not if, because they will be developed) artificial wombs would become a reality. It’s an amazing field of research, and artificial wombs would be a game changer for queer men having babies.

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