I hope they actually stay together and never let anyone tear them apart.
Below is the link to the article.
Link to article: Utah cousins drive to Colorado to get married
Tag: laws
Which European countries prohibits LGBTQ? Are there any countries that have similar laws as the U.S. where you aren’t allow to get married in the state but you may live there? Are there countries that prohibit it all together?
Sorry, I can’t answer these kind of questions as they are very broad, and the main focus of this blog is not law. I can only answer those kind of questions when it’s narrowed down to just one country or so, and typically by looking up a government website. So I suggest you do that. It may not be made clear in the outlines you find, because sometimes you have to read between the lines to find out what is allowed and what is not allowed.
If you are unsure, the best thing to do is to send an email to an official government site asking them the question.
Also try the following link. It might be a good starting point for you to research this (see the chart at the bottom of the page):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_European_Union
Sorry I can’t give much help here. Try those tips and hopefully you can get the answers you want. Thanks
Things always change for the better with time, so hopefully some of those places that ban it now will allow it in the future.
You’d be just the person to manage to start a movement to legalize incest and end the taboo. Your understanding is incredible and your blog is amazing. Love is love and you understand and respect it.
Oh, Anon, I can’t thank you enough! You are so kind to say these things. I’m so flattered!!!
I am a poor example of an activist but I do hope my attitude will be infectious.
You know, when I first started this blog even I had something in my sidebar about “It’s just fiction so it’s OK”, and I only had that there because I was worried about haters, but I reached a point where I was confident enough to remove that and just freely say that I absolutely support decriminalization of consensual incest. The laws might have been well-meaning when they were created but they are not right. And I’m really not afraid to say that now because I know that none of the arguments against decriminalization hold water. And I hope that can happen for everyone else too.
Court takes couple’s children because father is transgender
Imagine if this were your nightmare.
Daniel and Cindy are young parents whose world has been turned upside down because Daniel is transgender. He transitioned over a decade ago when he was 19, and few people know that he is transgender. When Daniel and Cindy decided to have children, they told Cindy’s parents that Daniel is transgender because they were conceiving in vitro with donated sperm. And, I suppose, they must also have trusted that her parents would continue to accept their son-in-law.
This was a mistake.
Cindy gave birth to healthy twins 2 ½ years ago, and Daniel and Cindy and the twins have been very happy – except for one problem. Cindy’s parents make rude comments about Daniel being transgender, and they do it in front of the twins. Requests for them to stop are met with mirth. Daniel and Cindy put up with this behavior for a long while, but as the twins are getting older, they worry that the negative comments are harmful, and they don’t want to be forced to try and explain concepts to their young children that are beyond their ability or need to understand – in vitro, transgender.
Daniel and Cindy made the difficult decision that the grandparents are no longer welcome in their lives. The grandparents got angry and sued for custody of the children. The twins have two loving parents. Child Protective Services have never been called; there have been no police reports of abuse; neither parent has a criminal record.
Last week, a court removed the twins from their home and gave custody to the grandparents. The reason? Their father is transgender.
Daniel and Cindy are working with a lawyer to try and get their children back. Will they get them back? Who knows? What we do know that the children have pulled out of their home and are living with two people who demean and ridicule their father.
And if they do get the children back, their lives will never be the same. Everyone in town either knows or soon will know that Daniel is transgender, and he will likely lose his job. If the children are gone too long, they may not trust their parents when they return. Daniel and Cindy will either spend savings or go into debt to pay legal fees. And they go to bed every night distraught because their children are not with them. They don’t know if their children are crying for them, but surely their children must be confused.
This isn’t a story made up as an example of what might happento someone who is transgender. This is really happening to a young couple and their twins. I’ve changed the names because the case hasn’t hit the news, so perhaps the family will be able to maintain some privacy.
The take away? While it may not be discrimination for the grandparents to be hateful to their son-in-law; it certainly is discriminatory for the Court to make a custody decision based on the father’s transgender status. Transgender non-discrimination laws would give these parents and their children better legal protections to be a family free from government interference. Also, if Courts are permitted to take children from otherwise good parents because one parent is transgender, who’s next?
Support the passage of anti-discrimination legislation in support of transgender people, whoever you are, wherever you live.
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This doesn’t surprise me one bit. The more I find out about the U.S. the happier I feel to be living in Canada. But I hope things change for you guys, I really do. You shouldn’t have to relocate your whole life just to have basic human rights.
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