Trans Adoption......

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Hello everyone,

I plan to be starting hormones sometime this spring. Since I can't afford banking my sperm and hormones at the same time, I’m planning to adopt if I decide to have kids.

But I'm kind of worried about getting denied that based upon my trans status. There are three state that been gay and lesbian couples from adopting (UT, MI and Miss) and one forbidding gays and lesbians from adopting period (FL).

Given the fact that I'm trans and likely to end up in a non-hetero-normative relationship, that would be two-strikes against me. I've been able to find no specific law against trans adoption though a bill came up in Ohio that specifically (along with Gay and Lesbian) precluded Transfolk from adopting but as far as I know wasn't passed. In North Dakota agencies can deny people on "religious considerations" (a de facto ban).

I've heard of plenty of people planning to adopt, but I've never heard of a trans person ever doing it. The ones I know and heard of having kids had them before they transitioned, through artificial fertilization with a (genetic) female partner or through a surrogate.

Does anyone know a transperson who has actually adopted a child post-transition?

Thanks.

Courtney

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