Tao Han
Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Apr;25(4):413-427. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2022.2049879. Epub 2022 Mar 16.
Based on one-year's ethnographic fieldwork, this article unpacks experiences of assisted reproductive technology (ART) among queer parents and queer wannabe parents in Guangdong, China. Although existing state regulation on the use of ART and birth planning tends to deny parenthood to single and queer people and further limits their ability to form legible family units, queer parents who have had children through ART are growing in number in urban China. This research delineates how state and cultural conventions, together with market and economic conditions, have shaped queer individuals' decision making regarding whether, when and how to have children. Findings make an original contribution to studies of the use of reproductive technology in Chinese queer lives. Narratives regarding how queer parents employ ART services unscramble links between sexual citizenship and reproductive agency, as individuals make consumer choices and reproductive decisions synchronously. The paper also explores alleged LGBT-friendly ART companies and the image of a desirable 'rainbow baby' they have created. Chinese queer parents' participation in assisted reproduction has destabilised the dominant hetero-reproductive family matrix while simultaneously contributing to stratified reproduction.
基于一年的民族志田野调查，本文剖析了中国广东同性恋父母及准同性恋父母在辅助生殖技术（ART）方面的经历。尽管现行国家对辅助生殖技术使用和生育计划的规定倾向于剥夺单身和同性恋者的父母身份，并进一步限制他们组建清晰可辨家庭单位的能力，但在中国城市中，通过辅助生殖技术生育孩子的同性恋父母数量正在增加。本研究阐述了国家和文化习俗，以及市场和经济状况如何塑造了同性恋个体在是否生育、何时生育以及如何生育方面的决策。研究结果为中国同性恋生活中生殖技术使用的研究做出了原创性贡献。关于同性恋父母如何利用辅助生殖技术服务的叙述，揭示了性公民身份与生殖能动性之间的联系，因为个体在做出消费选择的同时也做出了生殖决策。本文还探讨了所谓对 LGBT 友好的辅助生殖技术公司，以及它们所塑造的理想“彩虹宝宝”形象。中国同性恋父母对辅助生殖的参与，在动摇异性生殖主导家庭模式的同时，也推动了分层生殖。
