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...
by Katy Faust | Jan 22, 2019 | Foundations, The Latest
(Originally published at Public Discourse) I started writing about why marriage is a children’s rights issue in 2012 following President Obama’s “evolution” on the subject of gay marriage when it seemed that everybody, especially the media, finally felt free to play...