Trans/National Queer Parenting : Or, How We Conceived, Birthed, and Parent a Child across Hetero- and Cis- Normative National, Legal and Social Lines

• This essay uses my own autobiographical narrative as an example of queer familyformation theory in practice to chart the process by which our child was con-ceived and born in a country where, at the time, such an occurrence was a legalimpossibility. The story of our child’s birth begins with my own gender transitionacross national lines from the U.K. to Sweden, and how I managed to use a legalloophole to register as female in Sweden as a trans woman without having toundergo sterilization, which was the law at the time. I discuss queer family andkinship formation, the issues arising from multi-queer parent family dynamics,trans-parenting and transnational legal navigation in conception, adoption poli-cies as they relate to heteronormative biases in child lineage and registration andthe impacts of legal divorce and non-monogamy in social and legal definitions ina Swedish and international context.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

kinship

queer family formation

queer family law

trans lesbian parenting

non-monogamy law

trans sterilization law

Genusvetenskap

Gender Studies

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