It’s turning into a video week around here, but I can’t help but share Victoria’s Secret model Josephine Skriver’s new video about standing up for her family—and how her lesbian mom had put out an ad seeking a gay dad to have a baby together.
It’s International Women’s Day, and while I support those who are striking today (and will not shop today myself), I don’t think it hurts the cause simply to elevate the Day’s message of “a more inclusive, gender equal world,” especially among my largely female audience. Hence this post about my son and gender equity.
A new video shows the harm in anti-LGBTQ bullying—and encourages people to make a positive difference.
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.
If there is one small positive in the attack on transgender people by the Trump administration, it is that more stories of trans kids are appearing in mainstream as well as LGBTQ media outlets. We owe it to those children to read their stories and ensure that our society is welcoming to them—but we also need to remember and support other trans lives.
“What do your kids call you?” Many of us LGBTQ parents have gotten this question—and many of us asked it of others when we were considering parenting. Six years ago, I posted a form to collect and share answers to this question, and the responses keep coming in (with 230 so far!), so I thought I’d do a fresh post about it–and ask again for more answers!
In light of the Trump administration’s decision yesterday to rescind guidance that protected transgender students, I felt it was especially important to share a great new resource for kids (and their grown-ups) about gender identity.
A must-read for this President’s Day is writer and parent Jennifer Finney Boylan’s piece at Medium, “I’m all done explaining my humanity.” She’s talking about being transgender—but it’s a piece everyone should read, trans and cis alike.
Time-sensitive action alert: Older children of LGBTQ parents are needed to lend their voices to an amicus brief for the U. S. Supreme Court in a case seeking to overturn an Arkansas decision that denied same-sex parents the right to be on their children’s birth certificates.
Love may not be all we need, John Lennon notwithstanding, but it’s a start. My own spouse is overseas on business today, but as this is the 24th Valentine’s Day we’ve spent together, we both know that our love transcends a single day. Love, in fact, transcends a whole lot.
