TY - JOUR AU - Baird, Josephine PY - 2020/02/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Trans/National Queer Parenting: Or, How We Conceived, Birthed, and Parent a Child across Hetero- and Cis-Normative National, Legal, and Social Lines JF - lambda nordica JA - lambda VL - 24 IS - 2-3 SE - Essays DO - 10.34041/ln.v24.585 UR - https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/585 SP - 191-206 AB - This essay uses my own autobiographical narrative as an example of queer family formation theory in practice to chart the process by which our child was conceived and born in a country where, at the time, such an occurrence was a legal impossibility. The story of our child’s birth begins with my own gender transition across national lines from the U.K. to Sweden, and how I managed to use a legal loophole to register as female in Sweden as a trans woman without having to undergo sterilization, which was the law at the time. I discuss queer family and kinship formation, the issues arising from multi-queer parent family dynamics, trans-parenting and transnational legal navigation in conception, adoption policies as they relate to heteronormative biases in child lineage and registration and the impacts of legal divorce and non-monogamy in social and legal definitions in a Swedish and international context. ER -