The world is not a wish granting factory.

We have known this for years, but there is yet another study to prove it:

The children of same-sex couples are just as happy and healthy as children with different-sex parents, according to a new study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 

This conclusion is not surprising: To the contrary, it reaffirms the near-absolute consensus among scientists and researchers that parental orientation has no bearing on children’s well-being. Columbia Law School’s What We Know project, which gathers data on same-sex parenting, has identified 73 peer-reviewed articles concluding that gay parents do not disadvantage their children in any way. There is no peer-reviewed, scientifically accepted study finding that gay parents do disadvantage their kids.

Surveying this astonishing breadth of research, Nathaniel Frank—director of the What We Know project and friend of Slate—concludes that “the scientific debate over the politics of gay parenting is over, and equal treatment has won.” That triumph of scientific consensus was a long time in the making.

fast forward the time please (via theoddoneouut)

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“Her Story,” a  new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity, debuted today! 

“It’s precisely because Her Story is written and directed by trans women, starring trans women and featuring trans women on the crew that it’s able to be so authentic and so acutely focused on its trans characters.”