Hong Kong’s regulator for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has referred a case to law enforcement agencies after a mainland Chinese influencer was suspected of offering to bring non-local surrogate mothers of LGBTQ parents to give birth in the city.
Tan Zubiao, also known as berlinsun, had set up a company in the city and advertised on social media commercial surrogacy services for LGBTQ couples, according to Hong Kong media.
Tan and his foreign husband, who have two children through surrogacy, were deported from Taiwan’s Kaohsiung last Thursday after being fined NT$200,000 (HK$48,109) for breaching Taiwan’s Medical Care Act by offering assisted-reproductive services.
In a written reply to the South China Morning Post on Sunday morning, Hong Kong’s Council on Human Reproductive Technology said commercial surrogacy arrangements and the distribution of related advertisements were prohibited under the city’s Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance.