Today is Blogging for LGBT Families Day, an annual event when LGBT families and our allies post to increase awareness about our families. (That’s me and my gay dad in 1973.) Thanks to Mombian for her tireless work to develop and run this event which she founded in 2006.
When LGBT families speak out, adult children [...]
Congratulations to Monica Canfield-Lenfest who is celebrating the release of her new resource guide for people with transparents. This guide is a culmination of her personal experience of having a transparent and her recent years of advocacy and community building, topped off with several months as a fellow at the COLAGE headquarters.
A statement from [...]
This request is sent by producer Glenn Meehan:
Is Your Family a Reality Show?
The co-creator of BIG WORLD, LITTLE PEOPLE is looking for GLBT families for a reality series based on their life. We’re looking for the following combinations; two dads, two moms (with kids 8 – 22 years old), a transgender person with a [...]
Catching up on Helen Boyd’s blog, I was reminded that her husband Betty participated in an episode of All My Children in which the transitioning character Zarf/Zoe attends a trans support group. Everyone but Zoe in that support group identifies as trans in real life, and Helen reports that they were not on script [...]
“The Mamas and the Papas and Then Some”
An Anthology by and for Genderqueer, Transsexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Partners
Maybe you’re a transsexual father, a transgendered mother, a genderqueer papa, or maybe you’re something more, something else, or some combination of any of the above, but odds are you haven’t had the privilege of [...]
How often do we hear from grown kids of T parents, and more specifically, the sons of T-parents? I was recently contacted by a 23-year-old son of a transgender parent who wants to find other queerspawn for a new project. I am happy to help Jonathan connect by posting this:
My father races cars, lugs [...]
A question emailed to me today:
My husband’s now-sister is a man-to-woman transgender. My in-laws don’t have a relationship with her, and talk about Travis like he’s dead, which my children hear. Is there any kind of children’s book on the market that will help my children understand what happened to Uncle Travis and where Aunt [...]
Last week, USA Today published a letter by Laurie Cicotello, whose parents’ 37-year marriage is vulnerable to being annulled. Why? Because her born-male parent transitioned to female 20 years ago. Technically, that makes her parents a same-sex couple.
Links to Dhillon Khosla’s website and his interview on “The View.”
Dhillon Khosla, author of “Both Sides Now: One Man’s Journey Through Womanhood,” Utah State Senator Scott McCoy, and Laura Smidzik, Executive Director of Rainbow Families.