Death, Sex & Money - A Trans Parent’s Adoption Journey
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4.2 • 2K 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."
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| 0:00.0 | This has to become a nursery suddenly and lamp frantically painting and, you know, it's like just do the nine months in a day. |
| 0:12.2 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:17.1 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:32.5 | Liam Lowry and Marissa Carol got married in 2014. |
| 0:36.7 | And right after that, we released an episode about |
| 0:39.5 | their love story. They'd met in college just as Liam was transitioning. Late last year, we got |
| 0:45.9 | an email from Liam, an elated update that they are now parents. They worked with an agency |
| 0:51.7 | to adopt their son Jude when he was an infant. |
| 1:00.7 | Did you feel like your agency was well-versed and fluent in dealing with queer couples? |
| 1:04.6 | Gay, yes. Trans, not so much. |
| 1:14.0 | And I have never gone through the process of trying to adopt a child, but it's what I know of it from watching loved ones go through it is that there's this process of almost sort of like needing to sum up and present the kind of |
| 1:22.9 | life that you could provide for a child and sort of package yourselves as an ideal family. |
| 1:32.3 | Yes, it's a dating profile, but for being a parent. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | How did that feel? |
| 1:37.9 | Like, how did you all approach that? |
| 1:42.3 | I mean, I think it's different for every family who goes through this process, which at least with our adoption agency, you make a book about your life, right? |
| 1:51.6 | It's like 20 pages. |
| 1:53.0 | It's lots of photos you describe. |
| 1:54.9 | Here's who I am. |
| 1:56.1 | This is, you know, we love the Mets and we love the beach. |
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