An Arizona judge has denied a transgender man’s request for divorce from his wife of nine years.

Thomas Beatie, born Tracy Lagondino in Hawaii in 1974, kept his female reproductive organs while transitioning to a man in his early 20s.

When Beatie married wife Nancy in Hawaii in 2003, and in 2008 gave birth to the first of three children, he had already undergone a state-authorized sex change.

The home ministry in India has clarified the position for gay couples who have already taken steps to have babies via Indian surrogate mothers before the rules were changed earlier this year.

In January the home ministry announced that they would no longer issue medical visas to gay couples and single people who wanted to have children via surrogacy in India, ending dreams of parenthood for many people.

An Israeli gay couple have taken to the internet in their final hope to start a family.

Liran Altman Kadury, 36, and Yuval Kadury Altman, 33, a couple from Tel Aviv, have already spent thousands of dollars trying to start a family by surrogacy.

But when they tried, one surrogate miscarried twins in the ninth week. The second didn’t take at all.

The would-be fathers are so desperate for a baby they are borrowing money from family, downsizing their lifestyle, and depleting their life savings.

Gay couples having children is like child abuse, an anti-abortion group has said.

New treatment guidelines on in-vitro fertilization treatment by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence (NICE) has got Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) furious.

SPUC manager Anthony Ozimic claims the guidelines 'ignores biology in the name of politically-correct social-engineering'. 

The Israel High Court of Justice on Sunday recommended the state clarifies legal procedures for gay couples seeking surrogacy, as a legal framework does not exist and this amounts to discrimination.

The court ruling came yesterday (3 January) after it heard a case involving two gay male couples asking to be recognized as the parents of children born to surrogate mothers in the United States.

A UK member of parliament wants to change the law to allow the children of gay couples to be recognized as the heir to the throne.

Labour MP Paul Flynn is wishing to amend a bill which ensures the first child of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will rule as monarch regardless of whether they are a boy or girl.

He is hoping to amend the legislation to allow their children to be a king or queen, and still be openly gay.

A California law will make it easier for gay couples to access same-sex couples to access fertility services on 1 January.

Originally only prioritized for straight couples, AB 2356 will ensure sperm donations will be available for all women.

Assembly member Nancy Skinner, who introduced the bill, said AB 2356 removes the obstacles LBT and single women faced when they sought medically-assisted insemination.

Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit secretly flew to India to care for a gay palace employee's twin babies, born to a surrogate mother in the subcontinent.

The royal made the trip in late October after the worker and his husband, who are also her friends, couldn't get a visa for the journey.

'If we accept same-sex marriage, we have to accept polygamy as well,’ claims a spokesman for the Vatican.

The Reverend Federico Lombardi made the comment in reaction to the introduction of gay marriage in France by Francois Hollande’s government, the passing of similar legislation by the Spanish Constitutional Court and the legalization of same-sex marriage in three US states.

A British gay man lived a content life before he was contacted suddenly by the Child Support Agency (CSA), demanding he start paying £26 ($41, €32) a week for two children he technically fathered over a decade ago.

Mark Langridge, from Essex, helped a former lesbian couple who were desperate for children and ask him to donate his sperm so they could have children.

The 47-year-old had not seen the family he helped out of kindness create since 2004, he was not named on the birth certificates of the two children and played no role in their upbringing.

Thomas Beatie had a full sex-change operation earlier this year but kept his womb just in case he wanted to give birth to more children.

Beatie, who gained notoriety in 2007 because he was legally a man when he gave birth to his first child that year and two more since, has split from his wife and now wants to have a family with his new girlfriend, Amber Nicholas.