Queer bioethics is a latterly explicated field of bioethics focusing on LGBTQI-related questions. On the one hand, queer bioethics discusses issues such as gender reassignment or sex affirmation of trans and intersex people, or reproduction justice for same-sex couples in accessing assisted reproduction technology. On the other hand and further, however, queer bioethics interrogates the basis on which socio-medicalized views on gender and sexuality are produced and reproduced, by critically deconstructing these concepts with the analytical tools of gender binary system and heteronormativity. By using the method of reflective equilibrium and uniquely combining it with the Queer Bioethics Inventory (QBI) created by Lance Wahlert and Autumn Fiester, I critique paternity, maternity and family legislation in Finland, a Nordic welfare state often deemed progressive in terms of human rights. My analysis discusses the dynamics of gender, sexuality, law and healthcare by detecting LGBTQI visibilities, invisibilities and discriminations in those legislations. Further, I will offer the unprecedented suggestion that the Nordic welfare state combined with the corrections stipulated by the QBI could have exceptional contributions to public good.
