Nicholas Maggipinto, 36, and Corey Briskin, 33, claim that the City of New York's IVF coverage policy for employees covers lesbian and hetrosexual couples who are trying to have a child, but not gay male couples.
Despite the law explicating prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, New York City denies fertility coverage to gay men. An EEOC complaint seeks to change that.
“You have policymakers who think a family consists of a man and a woman and two and a half children," one would-be father said. "But that’s not what my family will look like.
The couple said the cost of IVF and surrogacy without health coverage has been prohibitively expensive, effectively delaying their plans to start a family.