This week in People With LGBTQ Parents Doing Cool Things: Paralympian Tatyana McFadden, the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history, won the Amateur Athletic Union’s Sullivan Award, given annually since 1930 to “the most outstanding athlete” at an elite level in the United States. She was also raised by two moms.
Two-thirds of children who have transgender parents and are old enough to understand current events have experienced increased fears and anxieties under the second Trump administration, per a new study, which also looks at the steps trans parents are taking to protect their children and families.
Today marks the theatrical release of Fairyland, based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir about growing up with a single gay dad during the 1970s and 80s. Go see it—then read the book and these other memoirs by people who grew up with queer parents in roughly the same era.
Iowa State Senator Zach Wahls (D), whose 2011 speech to the Iowa legislature about growing up with two moms went viral (twice!) during the state’s marriage equality battles, has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent Joni Ernst (R).
Donor-conceived adult children of lesbian parents showed psychological resilience, regardless of the type of donor or their contact with them, according to new research from the longest-running study of lesbian-headed families. This result “challenges assumptions about donor-related effects on adjustment,” the researchers say.
Adults with lesbian parents “generally felt positive about their donor conception, realizing that it enabled them to be born into a loving family that very much wanted them,” according to recent findings from the longest-running study of lesbian families.
A new study has found that most middle and high school students with LGBTQ+ parents or caregivers experienced harassment or exclusion at school because of their families—but while that’s a call to action, let’s also dig deeper.
Adults conceived through donor insemination (DI) who have lesbian parents were generally satisfied with their knowledge of and contact level with their donor siblings, according to recent findings from the longest-running study of lesbian families.
How do donor-conceived adults with lesbian parents think about parenting their own kids? And what do the lesbian parents think about becoming grandparents? Recent results from the longest-running study of lesbian families shed light on these questions.
Adults conceived through donor insemination (DI) who have lesbian parents are generally satisfied with the amount of contact they have with their donors, whether or not they know them, according to the latest results from the longest-running study of lesbian families.
