“How To Be a Girl” Podcast: Life with a Transgender Daughter
Here’s another podcast to add to your playlist: “How to Be a Girl,” a single mom’s exploration of life raising her transgender daughter.
Here’s another podcast to add to your playlist: “How to Be a Girl,” a single mom’s exploration of life raising her transgender daughter.
An upcoming issue of National Geographic magazine will feature a nine-year-old transgender girl on the cover and tie in to a two-hour documentary on “the shifting landscape of gender.”
A new policy brief gives us a great summary of the state of social science research about lesbian and gay parents and our children.
Today marks the 18th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. My thoughts today are with all of the transgender community, their parents, children, and friends.
The adopted child of a friend asked her, “Mom, if Donald Trump is elected, will he send me and my brother back to our countries of origin?” Here’s the mom’s response—along with Hillary Clinton’s response to a mixed-race boy who expressed his fears about the hateful language coming from the Trump campaign.
I’ve written a lot about the history of LGBTQ parents to help show that we’re not really a newfangled and untested phenomenon, despite opinions to the contrary. We have a past to be proud of and the shoulders of role models to stand on. Here’s a recap for LGBTQ History Month.
Eleven years of blogging about being a lesbian mom means I’m pretty much as out as can be—but this year, on National Coming Out Day, I’m thinking about the importance of being out during one of the most contentious U.S. election seasons ever.
It’s Bisexual Visibility Day, which seems like a good time to repost a slightly revised version of a piece I wrote last year on “How many bisexual parents are there?”
Chris Mosier, the first transgender athlete on a U.S. national team, is starring in a new Nike ad during the Olympics. If you’re watching with your kids, however, they may (like mine) have questions about what it means to be transgender. Here are some resources to help you answer.
It’s the end of Pride Month, but far from the end of our pride. Last year at this time, our pride was celebratory. This year, it is resolute.