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The use of donor eggs, sperm and embryos in medically assisted reproduction (MAR) provide new possibilities for reproductive assistance and family-making. In clinical practice, it also brings to light questions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Despite this, fertility practitioners' reasoning in clinical decision-making remains surprisingly understudied. Drawing on Annemarie Mol's work on ontologies in medical practice (2002), we examine how fertility practitioners' clinical reasoning varies across different types of reproductive assistance involving donor eggs. Following Sweden's legal change on double gamete donation (2019), and drawing on data from focus group discussions with practitioners from public and private fertility clinics across Sweden our findings show that practitioners structured their clinical reasoning along pre-defined conceptualisations of the appropriate donor candidate and distinguished between social and medical indications for treatment. We contend that a standard model of egg donation, based on single donations for heterosexual couples, can be identified in health care decision-making. While double donation can fit this model, surplus embryo and partner donation (ROPA) challenge it, causing confusion and disruption in donor and recipient assessment processes. In this model, fertility and infertility is understood as inherent bodily conditions rather than shared or socially influenced situations. Consequently, the obstetric risks of donor-egg pregnancies are justified only on the ground of medical reasons. Our study contributes knowledge on how egg donation, as a medical procedure with certain health risks, can be practiced and conceptualized differently across the same clinical domain while also arguing for an analysis of inequity as embedded in practices. In our case, practitioners' dependency on conceptual and procedural conventions in donor and recipient assessments had an implicit reliance on heterosexual and nuclear understandings of conception and family, ultimately limiting the availability of treatment methods. These findings underscore the importance of attending to fertility practitioners' clinical reasoning in order to better understand issues of patient access and provider accountability.

Temporal constructs are central to reproduction and kinship, as epitomised by the pervasive concept of the biological clock within public imaginaries. While queer scholarship has problematised linear models of kinship and reproductive temporality, the specific temporalities associated with donor-conceived families have received less scholarly attention, despite the increasing prevalence of these family structures. In this article, we explore the question: how does donor conception reconfigure temporal logics. More specifically, we ask how does donor conception challenge (hetero)normative temporalities and kinship organisations. We examine donor conception through narratives of the embodied and intimate experiences of key stakeholders in the form of clinical staff, parents and donor-conceived adults, across case studies conducted in Denmark, Sweden and Australia. Our analysis illuminates distinct temporal perspectives: for clinic staff, donors exist in a static present; for recipient parents, the donor’s past is integrated into the present; and for donor-conceived adults, the donor is embedded within fragile futurities. We propose the concept of sideways temporalities to capture the queering of temporal logics in donor conception, characterised by non-normative scale (e.g. extensive sibling networks) and velocity (e.g. immediate matching via DNA testing).

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In the 2000s, same sex partnership laws, new reproductive technologies, and legislation rendering lesbian couples and single women eligible for state-funded assisted reproduction with donated gametes in the Scandinavian nations has resulted in significant changes in family formation. Drawing on two separate qualitative stud-ies, this paper scrutinizes Scandinavia’s alleged progressive LGBTQ politics by critically examining how ideas of kinship, race and nation shape ideas of ‘donor matching’ amongst queer parents in Sweden and Denmark. Through empirical analysis, we explore how the conditional invitation of queers into family making via state regulated assisted reproduction is entangled with racialised medical and commercial choices of donors that reflect historically specific ideas of race. In particular, we show how whiteness is framed as desirable and how being ‘racialised non-white’ is framed as a risk that ought to be minimised for children who are already considered ‘disadvantaged’ by being born into ‘queer’ families. Thus, we argue that contempo-rary queer reproduction is not only central to homonationalism, it can also be seen as a continuation of eugenic and biopolitical initiatives that have been central to the emergence of Scandinavian welfare states. We conclude by proposing further scru-tiny ofcontemporary queer reproduction as apotential ‘white-washing’ technique to manage populations.