Egg donation is regulated differently in countries around the world. In Canada, federal law – the Assisted Human Reproduction Act – prohibits paying egg providers. As a result, many Canadians are engaging in a grey market for eggs or are pursuing transnational egg transactions by traveling to countries with more permissive laws, or having eggs shipped to Canada. In this paper I rely on interview data with 18 Canadian intended parents and 16 Canadian egg providers – many of whom had traveled abroad for egg transactions – to understand how intended parents and egg providers decide how they will pursue egg transactions; specifically, why so many Canadians choose to engage in transnational egg transactions. I use Brian Z. Tamanaha’s theory of systems of normative ordering, combined with Paul Schiff Berman’s cosmopolitan pluralism, as a framework to reveal the plurality of norms and other factors that weigh into this decision-making and that help reveal the answer to the “why.” Ultimately, I illustrate how intended parents and egg providers are impacted by sometimes clashing norms from official legal systems, economic/capitalist systems, and customary/cultural systems. These norms, along with moral and practical concerns, shape the decisions of intended parents and egg providers.