Ranae von Meding: How a young woman from a strict, religious household met her now her wife & is fighting for the rights of their children to have two legal parents
What A Woman PodcastShow Notes
Our guest this week on What A Woman Podcast is Ranae Von Meding, a Dublin based writer, speaker and co-founder and CEO of Equality For Children, a not-for-profit organisation fighting for the rights of children born to LGBTQ+ families in Ireland. Ranae also has three children with her wife Audrey and has been campaigning for several years for her wife to be recognised as a legal parent to all of their children because of current laws in Ireland discriminating against LGBTQ+ families. We talked about:
- her upbringing in an ultra-orthodox, religious household
- when Ranae discovered she was queer in her early twenties
- how she had to cut contact with her mother for a period after she came out as queer and how that relationship healed
- going through reciprocal IVF with her wife Audrey to have their three children
- the devastation of realising her wife Audrey would be a legal stranger to their children because of the laws in Ireland
- how Ranae has campaigned for nine years to change legislation and is still in the position where her daughters now have two legal parents but her youngest son does not
- how Ranae has equipped her children to understand how they were born to two mums and how she would feel if they want to find their donor
- why it's crucial to have better representation of LGBTQ+ families in education/schools and media
To follow Ranae and support this important campaign go to:
www.equalityforchildren.ie
@ranaevonmeding
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