For them, bigotry. For others, money. Baby factories are, in fact, messy and often unethical in all sorts of ways. I’m not going to pick and choose. This organization is wrong to refuse to allow gay couples to adopt on the basis of homophobia. Gay couples are wrong to exploit vulnerable women half the world over on the basis of it being cheaper to get a baby from them there.

Either way, I don’t lose sleep over people who can afford the money they give to baby factories, because it just perpetuates the problem. Gay, lesbian, white, cis or not.

They’re a Christian organization, not surprised. However, the fact they won’t involve themselves with surrogacy or people with a history of mental health issues isn’t controversial in and of itself. A trans woman can’t gestate an embryo, and these embryos are only adopted to couples who will be able to carry them themselves, and not just baby buyers who found creative uses for their wealth. Surrogacy is messy and complicated even somewhere like the us where it’s heavily regulated and only altruistic surrogacy is allowed.