The New York City Council's LGBTQIA+ Caucus has called on Mayor Eric Adams to take action and extend in vitro fertilization (IVF) coverage to gay male employees following a recent lawsuit. The caucus argues that gay men are being denied benefits that are available to straight couples and single women due to an outdated definition of 'infertility' in the city's health plan.
The current policy only covers IVF for employees who can prove infertility as 'the inability to conceive a child through male-female unprotected sexual intercourse,' which excludes gay men from accessing IVF treatments. The caucus demands that Mayor Adams update the health care plans to include gay male couples and reimburse those who have been denied IVF benefits in the past.
