A sweet new video to kick off LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week in the U.K. features a transgender adoptive dad encouraging other transgender people to foster or adopt kids.
In the video, trans dad Alex tells us:
The qualities you need to be an adoptive parent are resilience, tenacity, the ability to laugh at yourself and do things you never imagined you might do, but you’ll give it a try anyway…. The fact that you’re trans and you’re sitting here now watching this video means that you’ve come through your journey and you’re actually thinking seriously about impacting somebody else’s life positively. The fact that you’ve come through transition and you’re now functioning in society quite happily means you’ve got a lot of resilience, a lot of tenacity, and a lot of inner strength.
The video was produced by New Family Social, a charity dedicated to supporting LGBT adoptive and foster parents and prospective parents. They have run LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week for seven years, and tell us:
While 1 in 10 adoptions in 2016 in England were to same-sex couples there are some 70,00 children still in care. With an estimated additional 9,000 foster carers needed across the UK last year there is a real and urgent need for more LGBT people to consider adoption or fostering.
Watch more videos of LGBT adoptive and foster parents and (if you’re in the U.K.) look for events near you at the New Family Social website.
