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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that at the clinic we visited, you needed to have a valid medical reason to sex select. Some genetic diseases Target one sex or the other. Some mutation carriers have fewer effects depending on sex. I’m not explaining this well, but think of BRCA mutation carriers.[/quote]

Unless you're Elon Musk (who sex-selects only for boys) or a celebrity and go to concierge doctors for this stuff, the people who are going to clinics generally need a valid medical reason.

One valid reason for selecting girls is if genetic testing shows risk of a X-linked recessive inheritance disorder like haemophilia, or some forms of muscular dystrophy.[/quote]

Nah, I never had enough embryos to choose, but I know people that did at most of the big clinics around here. They don't advertise it as sex selection, but you'll have a conversation with your RE about which embryo to try first and they leave it up to you without getting into why you chose one over the other. Assuming you have multiple similar grade normal embryos of course - it might be a different conversation if you have 1 and want to do another retrieval before transferring. And also agree that most REs would not be willing to discard normal embryos based on sex, a la Elon Musk. 
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But doesn't the testing in general tell you if there is an X or Y chromosome? So they are already telling you, so if you select an XY embroyo, then you know you're trying for a girl? Also, these procedures are advancing every year and what was done a couple years ago doesn't really apply to today, right? So now, selecting embroyos with girls or boys seems the norm in 2020? Do they let you gender select in Philadelphia? Does anyone know?[/quote]

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