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cjgl-12985	McGowan, Grace	We're Not Giving This Child Back To Lesbians: An Examination of LGBTQ+ Parents' Loss of Children to the Family Regulation System	2024	29	.pdf	application/pdf	25053	895	43	State Treatment of LGBTQ+ Parents: Lessons from the Private Custody and Foster/Adoption Context A growing number of states have explicit protections for stepparents/second parents, foster care parents, prospective adoptive parents, and youth in the family regulation system against SOGI discrimination.121 Similar explicit protections for LGBTQ+ parents in private custody are emerging in some progressive states.122 Such protections prevent judges from explicitly finding that a parent’s sexual orientation or gender identity is not in the child’s standard continues to enable judges to consider LGBTQ status when making custody and visitation decisions. Columbia Journal of Gender and law Columbia Journal of Gender and law546 54744.344.3 “WE’RE NOT GIVING THIS CHILD BACK TO LESBIANS”: AN EXAMINATION OF LGBTQ+ PARENTS’ LOSS OF CHILDREN TO THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM GRACE MCGOWAN* INTRODUCTION People often associate LGBTQ+1 parents with adoptive and foster parents.	cache/cjgl-12985.pdf	txt/cjgl-12985.txt