by Them Before Us | Mar 9, 2025 | The Latest
(Originally published in World News Group) When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers proposed changing the term “mother” to “inseminated person” in the state budget, many people rightly laughed at the absurdity of the terminology— with Elon Musk chiming in to say “Hi Mom, I mean...
by Them Before Us | Mar 12, 2021 | Stories |
My adoption was in the works before I was born. My adoptive parents had been married about 9 years and had been unable to get pregnant. My adoptive mother wanted nothing more than to be a mom. My bio-mother was married, but had been intimate with another woman’s...
by Katie Breckenridge | Feb 16, 2021 | The Latest
In early December 2020, Myles Brady Davis, a transgender man, gave birth to a daughter, Zayn, with “his” partner, Precious, a transgender woman. Illinois, rightly so, recognized “him” as the baby’s mother, as, of course, it is biological women who give birth to...
by Them Before Us | Nov 24, 2020 | Around the World, Justice, Washington D.C. |
Them Before Us filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court making one thing abundantly clear: Birth Certificates Exist for Kids, Not Adults. Box vs Henderson is an Indiana case arguing the same-sex spouse of a biological parent should be listed on a child’s...
by Them Before Us | Jul 29, 2020 | Stories |
In 2016 I purchased an Ancestry DNA test. It sat on my counter for a week before I spit into the tube and mailed it out — sending my genetic material off into the universe, hoping to find some information about myself and where I came from. The idea was terrifying in...