Starting in 2025, Colorado will be the first state where sperm donors won’t be anonymous

I assume it’s a pretty niche group of folks, but if you’re a sperm donor and don’t like people knowing, Colorado won’t be your place in 2025…

Among about a dozen new laws that start on Jan. 1, 2025, is a sperm donor ID disclosure law.

Colorado became the first state in the country to pass a law banning anonymous sperm donation in 2022, with the prohibition set to take effect on the first day of 2025.

Under the new law, sperm and egg donors must agree to have their identity released to children conceived from their donations when the child turns eighteen. The bill already made other changes, including increasing the minimum age of donors to 21 and limiting donors to contributing to no more than 25 families.

Supporters said the legislation is intended to give donor-conceived people access to critical information about their medical and genetic backgrounds, as well as to address fraud in the industry, such as when multiple Colorado fertility doctors were revealed to have used their own sperm to impregnate numerous unknowing patients under the guise of using anonymous donors.