The New Lesbian Dad. How some women are reinventing what it means to be a parent. When Polly Pagenhart’s partner, Jennifer, became pregnant with their first child, the couple began a process that is as common to most same-sex parents as painting the nursery or packing the hospital bag: deciding what their child would call each of them. For Pagenhart, now 50, who describes herself as butch and gender-nonconforming, this was not an easy task. “I was stumped,” she explains. “I felt like I couldn’t be a parent if I had to be a conventionally feminine mother. I couldn’t even accept a variation on the word ‘mother’ for my title.” After exploring various parental titles, Pagenhart decided on the title “baba,” the diminutive for “father” in Frankfurter, a German dialect.
“What I think is most important is that there is cultural space for gender-nonconforming people to be parents and still be who they are on the spectrum of gender,” explains Pagenhart. Polly Pagenhart plays with her two children in San Francisco. Trans*forming Family | thoughts on the transition journey of our entire family, from the proud mother of a transgender son. GenderIdentity.pdf (application/pdf Object) Every State Can Implement Transgender-Inclusive Health Coverage. SOURCE: AP/Elise Amendola Transgender attorney Sara Schnorr, a partner at Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge LLP, speaks at their offices in Boston, February 3, 2011.
By Andrew Cray | February 15, 2013 Transgender people have consistently been subject to health care coverage policies that arbitrarily cut off access to the care they need. State policymakers in Oregon, however, have recently stepped up to end this kind of discrimination. It is no secret that pervasive bias and discrimination have pushed transgender Americans to the margins of society. But recent motion toward coverage parity for transgender people at the state level shows that these barriers are not immovable. There are three kinds of statutes already on the books in some combination in every state that give policymakers the authority to end antitransgender discrimination in insurance: public-accommodations laws, prohibitions on unfair trade practices in insurance, and grants of discretionary authority to insurance regulators. Fox News and Massachusetts Family Institute Slam New Student Transgender Policy. The Fox News headline "Students Who Refuse to Affirm Transgender Classmates Face Punishment" sets the stage for this "Cultural War" against trans people written by Todd Starnes.
Deconstructing Fox lies. The headline of Starnes article is a lie. There is no wording in the new policy mentioning disciplinary actions of any kind. Todd Starnes writes "The new rules would also prevent teachers and administrators from telling parents with which gender their child identifies. " That's a lie. Fox used the vitriol of a hate group to validate this hate filled screed: "The Massachusetts Family Institute denounced the new rules calling them a violation of privacy.
" “Fundamentally, boys need to be using the boys’ room and girls need to be using the girls’ rooms, and we base that on their anatomical sex, not some sort of internalized gender identity,” said Andrew Beckwith, the institute’s general counsel. " "Beckwith told Fox News the new policy has a “very broad standard that is ripe for abuse.” Sugarbutch Chronicles | The sex, gender, and relationship adventures of a kinky queer butch top. Polare 84: The Baby Game | The Gender Centre Inc. (The Gender Centre advise that this article may not be current and as such certain content, including but not limited to persons, contact details and dates may not apply.
Where legal authority or medical related matters are cited, responsibility lies with the reader to obtain the most current relevant legal authority and/or medical publication.) How to Make Babies in a Transgender Relationship by Maggie Smith, R.N. Article appeared in Polare magazine: July 2010 Last Update: October 2013 Last Reviewed: February 2014 The process of storing samples is done by freezing or cryopreservation.
With technology as it stands at present it is certainly possible for a person to bank semen, eggs or embryos for future use As society and governments slowly change their attitudes toward same-sex and transgender relationships, and laws are changed to reflect these attitudes, it is to be hoped that more transgender people will fulfil the role of parent. Once collected by whatever method the sample is frozen.