It’s time for another roundup of LGBTQ parenting news! Here are a few of the stories I haven’t covered already.
Family Profiles
- Max Lenox, the captain of the basketball team at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has two dads and a very long profile in Sports Illustrated. (Thanks, HRC!)
- ELIXHER profiles Angela and Fernanda Ferrell-Zabala, who are trying to start a family the same way my spouse and I did, with one providing the eggs, to be fertilized through IVF and carried by the other.
- Yahoo! Health tells of transgender men’s experience with pregnancy (and manages to avoid the pitfall that NPR fell into).
- The Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star both have articles on the many same-sex parents in Arizona looking to adopt now that the state has marriage equality. Unmarried cohabiting couples still cannot adopt there.
Politics and Law
- After the 6th U.S. Circuit Court denied same-sex couples the right to marry, Michigan moms April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s worth remembering, though, as lawyer Nancy Polikoff points out, that their real goal is to both be legal parents to their children.
- The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that nonbiological mothers have the right to seek custody of children they were raising with a former partner. It also affirmed that second-parent adoption is legal in the state.
- Israel will soon issue ID cards that have “Mother’s Name” and “Father’s Name” in two places, so that children of same-sex parents can indicate both parents appropriately. The change came after a petition filed by four children of same-sex couples.