Take a moment to go read Sometimes Daddies Do Get Pregnant (How I Do Queer Parenting), by Lucy Silva Marrero, at Hip Mama. It’s a rare but needed look at raising a child in a family with a transgender parent, and the challenges of painting a broader-than-usual picture of gender roles. “I love that my boy asked an ex-girlfriend of mine, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?’” Marrero writes, “and she answered ‘Neither/nor.’ And we talked about how people are boys or girls or a combination or something in between, and how everybody is different.” Wise words for all of us, as well as a reminder of the full breadth of the LGBT spectrum.

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Mombian YouTube Channel: Positive videos of LGBT families






Maria
on Mar 31st, 2007
@ 5:26 pm:
Thank you for sending me over to HipMama to read her post. It was a wonderful insight and I loved her great sense of humor and her skills at explaining life to her young son. I hope that she and her partner soon have an important announcement for the world.
Polly
on Apr 1st, 2007
@ 1:57 pm:
The wired world is so full of words, so many of them valuable. But I, for one, rarely have enough time to comb the web for the gems. A great many of us rely on you to keep us connected to them. Thank you, Dana, for “hipping” us to this great piece.