Family Profiles
- The Advocate profiled lesbian moms Cathy and Leah, who talk about creating their family and offer some wise words about what they have learned as parents.
- The Arizona Daily Star profiled a nine-year-old transgender girl, and her parents, who have allowed her to transition and live as a girl. The article is generally positive—it quotes Kim Pearson, executive director of TransYouth Family Allies, for example—but it also explores the debates surrounding transgender kids. (For more resources about transgender kids, see my post from November.)
More Debate on The Kids Are All Right
- The New York
Times has solicited opinions from various people including marriage-history expert Stephanie Coontz and columnist Dan Savage to talk about the impact of a movie like The Kids Are All Right on changing social perceptions. - Joan Garry, currently adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communications and former head of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), shared her thoughts about The Kids Are All Right. She feels the film goes beyond believability when it has one of the moms have an affair with their sperm donor, and “the takeaway from this film will be that lesbians and the families they create need men to be complete.”
- If you read Garry’s piece, though, you should also go read the piece at After Ellen by Sinclair Sexsmith, who takes the opposing view. (My position is closer to that of Sexsmith, and I’ve explained why.)