Today, white-coated professionals tell parents of children with gender dysphoria: affirm your child’s trans identity right away or prepare for suicide. Are those really the only two options? For a movement that decries the binary, its commitment to this false dichotomy is relentless.

I was sixteen the first time I heard my mother curse.

She was worn and weary—stretched beyond her maternal limits. From delirious dreams, I sat up, mumbling that I felt sick. From her own crumpled position in a bedside chair, Mom scrambled for the emesis bowl too late, triggering her exasperated expletive. Who could blame her, after our late-night trip to the ER and the projectile vomiting that began as soon as I walked through the hospital’s sliding doors?

I felt so bad about the mess I was making. I apologized profusely in between heaves, reaching out and cupping my hands to try to catch it, as if that would somehow help. Soon a thin tube was up my nose and down my throat, liquid charcoal slowly descending, making its way to my stomach to absorb the numerous prescriptions I consumed in my first major suicide attempt. Most of what had been in our downstairs bathroom medicine chest was now in me.

After sexual abuse at age ten, my subsequent years had been filled with suicidal ideation. I hated myself, and I hated my female body, scorning it as the source of my vulnerability and betrayal. As I developed, I sought an androgynous appearance, which for me was both a style and a shield. I could tie a man’s necktie as deftly and neatly as my father, I wore one so often.

On September 29, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., SSI France is organizing its fourth webinar on the theme of tracing origins for people adopted internationally.

This webinar will be an opportunity to review the support and support that the SSI can offer to adoptees in this process and to present our RACINE project, financially supported by the International Adoption Mission of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Here is the complete program:

– Opening by Sandrine Pepit, Director of SSI France
– Introductory remarks by the Mission of International Adoption
– Presentation of SSI/CIR publications on the search for origins by Juliette Duchesne – Roulez, Children's Rights Officer at SSI/CIR
– Presentation of psychological aspects of the search for origins by Dr. Fanny Cohen-Herlem, consulting psychiatrist at the SSI/CIR
– Presentation of the SSI methodology in the management of origins search files by Albert Mukwiye, social worker at the SSI Switzerland
– Presentation of the RACINE project, by Jimmy Messineo, coordinator of SSI France
– Question/answer time

Germans are only allowed to adopt an adult refugee if their identity has been clarified. According to a judgment of the BGH, it must also be "morally justified".

When adopting an adult refugee, there must be a close personal relationship like that between parents and their child, demanded the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in a decision published on Wednesday.

The specific case concerned an Afghan refugee who entered Germany via the Balkan route in 2016 without a passport and applied for asylum. At first he stated that he had just come of age. His birth parents are dead. A German couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district took the young man into their household.

OLG Koblenz and BGH show the limits of adoption

In the asylum procedure, the refugee later changed his date and place of birth. After his asylum application was rejected, the couple from the Mayen-Koblenz district applied for the refugee to be adopted. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Koblenz rejected this.

Several parents whose children were allegedly trafficked by Madam Maria Morgan-Luyken have threatened a peaceful protest in demand of justice in order to draw the attention of the Government of Liberia and the international partners over delays in sentencing the accused.

The aggrieved parents say the accused, Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty by Criminal Court ‘’B’’ for trafficking – in – person, but it has taken over seven years and she has not been sentenced.

Speaking in an interview at the ground of the Temple of Justice, Matherline Johnson, spokesperson of the aggrieved parents, said they are tired of being left alone because they have not received any information from the government regarding the sentencing of the lady.

She explained that they have met the Assistant Justice Minister for Litigation Cllr. Weseh A. Wesseh several times and he told them to go to the Ministry of Labor to get more information concerning the case.

Matherline indicated that they believe that their children are dead because since Madam Morgan – Luyken was found guilty, the accused has not been able to bring back their children or face her sentence.

The term “birth mother” is set to be dropped from legislation on adoption and tracing working its way through the Oireachtas, Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman will tell a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

Mr O’Gorman is to give evidence on Tuesday afternoon to the joint committee on children, equality, disability integration and youth, which is carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill.

In his opening statement, the Green Party Minister will say that he has met with a group of mothers to discuss the “deeply sensitive issue of the term”, which is used in the heads of the Bill.

“I am clear that a more suitable term is needed,” he will say, although no alternative term has yet been agreed. Mr O’Gorman has met with a group of mothers who feel the term is “reductive and hurtful”.

“Some find the term natural mother more appropriate, other prefer the term first mother,” he will say, noting that a survey of adopted people undertaken by the advocacy group Aitheantas finds that there is a preference for the term.

FRA’s Management Board elected Rick Lawson as its new Vice-Chair on 24 September. He will take office on 11 October.

Rick Lawson joined FRA’s Management Board as the Dutch member in October 2020. He is Professor of European Human Rights Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His work covers fundamental rights in the European Union, as well as the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

Elise Barbé, a French Supreme Court of Appeal judge, continues as Chair of FRA’s Management Board.

The Management Board is FRA’s independent oversight body. It is responsible for adopting the agency’s multiannual Programming Document, and its annual Fundamental Rights Report. It monitors the Agency’s operations and adopts its budget. It also appoints FRA’s Director, as well as the members of its Scientific Committee.

The Management Board consists of one independent member per Member State, nominated for five years. Members have high-level responsibilities in national human rights institutions or other public or private sector organisations.

Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any

by Jenny Kleeman

Sat 25 Sep 2021 06.00 BST

For 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a daughter and a sister. She looked like her mother, Sarah, but had the same temperament as her father, George: calm, unflustered, kind.

Then her father died. There was a dispute over his will, and that led her mother to call and tell her something that made the ground dissolve beneath her feet. George had had a vasectomy long before Catherine was born. She and her brother had been donor conceived in Harley Street using the sperm of two different anonymous men. George was not her biological father.

On Friday, September 24, 2021, the District Court of The Hague heard the proceedings on the merits of Trudy Scheele-Gertsen and Bureau Clara Wichmann against the State. During the at times emotional hearing, the Court offered several women the opportunity to tell their stories. The Court expects to rule in this case on December 15, 2021.

This case concerned the question of whether the State acted unlawfully towards Mrs Scheele-Gertsen and other mothers who renounced their child in the years 1956-1984. Distance mother Trudy Scheele-Gertsen held the Dutch State liable for the harm caused to her . Trudy says she was forced to give up her child for adoption in the 1960s, while she wanted to take care of him herself. Interest group Bureau Clara Wichmann supported the case by standing up for the interests of all women who have been separated from their child.

Invocation of statute of limitations

The State invokes the limitation period because this concerns a civil procedure.

The State says the case is time-barred because it happened so long ago. In addition, there is no evidence of wrongful conduct. In particular, the role of the Child Protection Board was often discussed. 'At the time, the Child Protection Board acted in good faith', says state lawyer Mette van Asperen. She refers to the existing renunciation and adoption files as objective evidence.

Parents forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s are being asked to come forward to give evidence to a new investigation.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights is to hold an inquiry into the forced adoption of babies of unmarried mothers during those years.

Committee chair Harriet Harman says it is a matter that affects the human rights of thousands of women.

One mother said she was told: "You won't be seeing this baby again."

The affected mothers said they were made to hand over their babies by doctors, nurses, social workers and churches.

Inquiry

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched a new inquiry to understand the experiences of unmarried women whose children were adopted between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales. The inquiry will consider whether adoption processes respected the human rights, as we understand them now, of the mothers and children who experienced them, as well as the lasting consequences on their lives.

The inquiry will cover a range of practices that led to the children of unmarried mothers being adopted. The scope of the inquiry will specifically cover issues arising from cases that took place during the time period between the Adoption of Children Act 1949 and the Adoption Act 1976.

It will look at:

Whether the right to family life of unmarried mothers and their children, as we understand it now, respected at the time?