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About & Editorial Standards

Last reviewed 2026-10-27

This is an independent English-language reference on sex selection with IVF. It exists because almost every other page on the subject is written by someone selling the treatment, and the two facts that matter most to a patient are the two that marketing copy reliably omits.

What we are

• Not a clinic. We do not provide treatment, we employ no clinicians, and nothing here is medical advice.
• Not an agency with a single partner. We do not have one clinic to steer you to.
• An information service that will, if you ask, introduce you to clinics and help you compare written plans.

How we are funded

The site carries no advertising and is free to read. If we introduce you to a clinic and you go ahead with treatment, we may be paid a referral fee by that clinic. We state this on the pages where we invite you to contact us, not only here. It is a real conflict of interest and the right response to it is disclosure plus a standing instruction: compare anything we tell you against a second written opinion.

Rules we hold ourselves to

1. Every number is attributed. If we publish a price or an outcome figure, the source is listed on the same page with a link where one exists. We do not publish prices as our own.
2. No guarantees. We do not write that an outcome is assured, because it is not, and a site that promises one is telling you something about itself.
3. The gap gets stated, not filled. Where the evidence is weak — sperm sorting is the clearest case — we say it is weak rather than rounding it into a percentage.
4. Distinguishing the test from the outcome. The near-perfect accuracy of identifying an embryo's sex and your chance of a child of that sex are different numbers, and we never let the first stand in for the second.
5. Legal claims name the instrument. Where we say a country prohibits something, we say under which law. Where we have not verified it, we leave the space empty and say the page is in preparation.
6. No clinic names in editorial pages. Comparison and recommendation stay separate, so a page you read for information is not also an advertisement.
7. Nothing is offered where it is a criminal offence. Most directly, India, where the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 makes both sex selection and advertising it an offence.

What we will not write

We will not frame a child's sex as a problem to be fixed, and we will not write copy that treats one sex as a better outcome than the other. People come to this subject for a range of reasons — some after losing a child, some carrying a sex-linked condition in the family, some simply wanting a daughter after three sons. None of those reasons needs a sales pitch attached, and the subject carries enough weight already.

Dates and review

Each page shows when it was last reviewed. Clinical practice in this field moves slowly but regulation does not, so legal and price pages are reviewed more often than the pages explaining the laboratory process.

Corrections

If something here is wrong — a legal instrument misnamed, a figure out of date, a study mischaracterised — tell us and we will correct it and date the correction. Use the contact form and say it is a correction; those go to the top of the pile.