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So. Family, eh? Two-point-four children (I’m sure the average must’ve gone up by now) and Stacy Has Two Mommies. I would class myself as having an LGBT family…well, I fulfill the ‘L’ criteria and my Significant Other the ‘T’, which I guess makes us an LT family. Now, that’s quite odd I suppose because, to the outsider, we look like any normal ‘straight’ family, wandering down the street. The fact that one of us is a transsexual and the other is a lesbian is really not obvious at first look (well, I’m not entirely sure if you could tell I was a lesbian by looking at me, my shaven hair has grown out and, due to my job, I can’t live in jeans and a t-shirt any more!). So I suppose we could be an ‘invisible’ LGBT family, rather than a ‘visible’ one.

There’s been a while load of this-way and that-way about whether LGBT (or ‘alternative lifestyle’) couples would be allowed to adopt or have children and so on and so forth…my view is that kids get raised in such a multitude of environments – single mothers, single fathers, grandparents, orphanages, communes, brothers and sisters – it seems daft to exclude LGBT parents on the basis that the child won’t have a ‘stable family environment’. To be honest, it’s probably one of the most stable environments a child can be brought up in. Bear in mind that there are no accidental pregnancies in a same-sex relationship, and the amount of work that couple will have been through to obtain the child means that child will be very wanted (not to say that there aren’t heterosexual couples that go through a lot of work to have a child as well, but you see my point).

The world is getting more diverse, and the family image is no longer mum in her apron, dad in his business suit and little Jimmy with his baseball mitt. LGBT families are becoming the norm, which of course is a good and inevitable thing. When J and myself have children, we’ll be an (invisible) LGBT family and, to be honest, I don’t think we’ll be all the different from the millions of other families, LGBT and otherwise, around the world.