A Trans Parent’s Adoption Journey

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Anna first talked with Liam and Marisa about their love story back in 2014. Nine years later, we hear about the next chapter of their relationship: becoming parents. Update: We changed the title of this episode after publishing to be more accurate. It was initially called "Adopting As A Trans Couple." Did you know we have a weekly email newsletter for the Death, Sex & Money community? Every Wednesday we send out a note from Anna, fascinating listener letters from our inbox, and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Got a story to share? Email us at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This has to become a nursery suddenly and we have frantically painting and you know it's
0:06.5	like just do the nine months in a day.
0:09.6	This is Death Sex and Money.
0:17.7	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
0:26.2	I'm Anna Sales.
0:32.9	Liam Lowry and Marissa Carroll got married in 2014 and right after that we released an
0:38.3	episode about their love story.
0:40.9	They'd met in college just as Liam was transitioning.
0:44.9	Late last year we got an email from Liam, an elated update that they are now parents.
0:50.8	They worked with an agency to adopt their son Jude when he was an infant.
0:55.0	Did you feel like your agency was well versed and fluent in dealing with queer couples?
1:01.7	Gay?
1:02.7	Yes.
1:03.7	Trans not so much.
1:05.5	I have never gone through the process of trying to adopt a child but what I know of it
1:12.3	from watching loved ones go through it is that there's this process of almost sort of
1:18.6	like needing to sum up and present the kind of life that you could provide for a child
1:27.0	and sort of package yourselves as an ideal family.
1:31.8	Yes, it's a dating profile but for being a parent.
1:35.8	Yeah, well how did that feel?
1:37.9	Like how did you all approach that?
1:42.7	I mean I think it's different for every family who goes through this process which at least
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