Parenting, progress and Pride
Even as the battle continues, we have plenty to celebrate in Pride Month As we head into Pride Month, I am moved once again to ponder all that I am proud of.
My son tops the list, as always. But I am also proud of how we LGBTQ families and our allies have been able to keep pushing towards equality, despite an unprecedented amount of anti-LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric happening in the public square right now.
Perhaps most notably for LGBTQ families, a small but growing number of states — including most recently Michigan and Minnesota — have reformed their parentage legislation to better recognize the ways families are formed today, laying out clear and equitable paths to legal parentage for children with LGBTQ parents and those formed via assisted reproduction.
Assisted reproduction has also gotten a boost from new guidelines established by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine last fall, updating the definition of “infertility” to make it more inclusive of LGBTQ and single people who seek fertility healthcare.
