Blogging for LGBT Families Day

I am a bisexual woman, and I am marrying a man in November. Barring untoward incidents, we will thereafter have at least one child. Everyone will be so excited for us, and happy, and shower the child with non-organic cotton clothing and plastic toys, and we will be polite about it. The laws will be on our side, the general public will reward us with approving glances, and our families will be completely fine.

If I had fallen in love with a woman and I was marrying her in November, many people would be excited for us to have a child, but not everyone. The laws would often be against us, even after we spent hundreds of dollars on lawyers. The general public in most of Austin would probably be cool, but not always, and a road trip with the kids could be a risk. Much of my family would freak the fuck out.

And Representative Robert Talton would think that even though I am the EXACT SAME PERSON with the same skills, same personality characteristics, same attitudes that I have now, and a body of research that says my kid(s) would be just fine, that my wife and I shouldn't be foster parents.

That, my friends, should be in the dictionary under "fucked up."

Kudos to all the GLBT and other folks who are parents, foster parents, co-parents, any kind of parents, who persist in the face of bad laws and bad attitudes. You amaze me.