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Name: Louise Conceived: 1991 Where Conceived: London Podcast: You Look Like Me Jan 2025 RTE Radio 1: Finding sperm-donor Father and 7 half-siblings Jan 2025 Ireland AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctBP4cmYx2Y&t=21s Jan 2025 CBS Chicago: Journalist fights to improve fertility donation industry Nov 2024 CBS News: Serial sperm donors and lack of regulation create risks and leave children seeking answers Nov…

When someone is double donor conceived this means that they were conceived using a sperm donor AND an egg donor. You Look Like Me: Season 3, Episode 1 “Everything at Once”

We are discovering that many DCP in the UK, especially those of us who were conceived before 1991, have experienced abuse in relation to being donor conceived:

The Fertility Industry and the media have consistently referred to us as Donor Conceived Children for the past 80 years. Rarely are we portrayed as adults. Many Donor Conceived People (DCP) find it offensive to be referred to as children, when they are in fact adults and have been for a long time!! BBC December…

Being “so wanted” is about the recipient parents‘ (RP’s) feelings. Not the DCP’s. What heterosexual RP’s “wanted” was a baby that was half of the Mum and half of the Dad. What they got for a donor conceived child was half of the Mum and half a stranger.  It is a statement that is made…