At least in our practice, we test all embryo’s so we know if they are female or male and there is the question of can we select the gender? The answer is no. We can tell you, on each embryo. You can select in a sense that you can decide if you want to transfer a male or a female but we can’t create more embryo’s that are male or female.
Yes, the gender is detected but in my country there is a law, which I believe to be in most European countries, where we are not allowed to reveal the gender of the embryo. Personally I believe this to be ethically right as gender is not an abnormality and we are here to help patients have normal embryos and normal babies so gender is something we cannot discriminate upon. However we are testing the sex chromosomes so we can know whether we have sex chromosome abnormalities and we can inform the patient through the report whether a chromosome abnormality in the sex chromosome is detected.
