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Politics and Law

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Rhode Island Bill Seeks to Simplify Confirmatory Adoptions

Rhode Island legislators yesterday heard testimony in support of a bill that would streamline the process of confirmatory adoptions, ensuring that more LGBTQ families have access to this unfortunately necessary tool for protecting our legal ties to our children.

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Florida Rep. Seeks to Expand “Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ” Law

A Florida legislator has introduced a bill that would expand the state’s “Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ” law to completely ban instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity from pre-K through eighth grade classrooms and ban the use of pronouns and names aligned with transgender and nonbinary students’ gender identities in schools.

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Pennsylvania Court Denies Nonbio Mom Parentage

A Pennsylvania court has denied a nonbiological mother parental rights to the child she and her former spouse, the biological mother, had planned and created together. It is the second recent case in the U.S. to do so.

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“Fight for Families” Campaign Launched to Keep IVF Access Legal

My spouse and I started our family via reciprocal in vitro fertilization (IVF). The overturning of Roe v. Wade, however, poses a threat to IVF access and to others who want to start their families through IVF. While IVF remains legal in every state as of this writing, a new campaign is seeking to ensure it stays that way.

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Oklahoma Grants Parentage to Sperm Donor Over Nonbiological Mom

In a case with horrible implications for LGBTQ families, an Oklahoma judge has ruled that a married, nonbiological mom has no parental rights to the child she and her wife created and were raising together, but the couple’s sperm donor does. Here’s what happened, and what other same-sex couples need to do to protect their own families.

Kelley Robinson (R), wife, Becky George (L), and son, Izaiah. Eric Kayne/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign.

HRC’s Kelley Robinson Talks Family, Fighting Back, and the Future

Kelley Robinson, the new president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), is the first Black, queer woman to lead the organization. She’s also the mother of a toddler. Being a mom and wife is “the center of everything I do,” she told me in an interview about her family, her work, and her vision for the future.

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