title: Gender variety as a valid choice: a comment on the HFEA - response to Edgar Dahl's 'The presumption in favour of liberty'.
abstract: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has made several sensible recommendations about sperm sorting and preimplantation genetic diagnosis for sex selection, but has not provided a convincing case for restricting all non-medical uses of sex selection techniques. It relies too much on a public opinion survey and speculative fears about bad outcomes for offspring, and overlooks the legitimate interest of some families in using such techniques to have offspring of different genders.
authors.affiliation: Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law, University of Texas Law School, Austin, TX, USA. jrobertson@mail.law.utexas.edu
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Robertson
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019836:Preimplantation Diagnosis; D011640:Public Policy; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012743:Sex Preselection / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom