A white woman is suing a Chicago sperm bank after she claims she was mistakenly sent a black man’s sperm, and gave birth to a mixed-race daughter. She claims that while she loves her now 2-year-old daughter, it is extremely difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise her because of her “limited cultural competency relative to African-Americans.”

According to the Chicago Tribune, Jennifer Cramblett, who lives in a small town in Ohio, is suing Midwest Sperm bank for wrongful birth and breach of warranty, citing the emotional and economic losses she has suffered.

After searching through pages of comprehensive histories for their top three donors, the lawsuit claims, Cramblett and her domestic partner, Amanda Zinkon, chose donor No. 380, who was also white. Their doctor in Ohio received vials from donor No. 330, who is African-American, the lawsuit said.

Cramblett, 36, learned of the mistake in April 2012, when she was pregnant and ordering more vials so that the couple could have another child with sperm from the same donor, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also alleges that many members of Cramblett’s family are racist, and that one uncle openly makes racist comments. “Though compelled to repress her individuality amongst family members, Payton’s differences are irrepressible, and Jennifer does not want Payton to feel stigmatised or unrecognized due simply to the circumstances of her birth,” the lawsuit states. “Jennifer’s stress and anxiety intensify when she envisions Payton entering an all-white school.”

The lawsuit also says that “Because of this background and upbringing, Jennifer acknowledges her limited cultural competency relative to African-Americans and steep learning curve, particularly in small, homogenous Uniontown, which she regards as too racially intolerant,”.

Part of that learning curve has included getting her daughter’s hair cut, which Cramblett claims requires her to “travel to a black neighborhood, far from where she lives, where she is obviously different in appearance, and not overtly welcome.”

In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Cramblett said that the sperm bank “took a personal choice, a personal decision and took it on themselves to make that choice for us out of pure negligence”.

Cramblett said she decided to sue to prevent the sperm bank from making the same mistake again. The lawsuit says the sperm bank has no electronic record-keeping and no quality controls that would have prevented it from sending the wrong sperm to fertility clinics.

Midwest Sperm Bank have not yet commented on the case.