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Same-sex adoption has also been legal statewide since 2003, permitting stepchild adoption and joint adoption between same-sex couples. In 2014, California became the first state in the U.S. to officially ban the use of gay panic and transgender panic defenses in murder trials. [3]
In 2020, the United States Census Bureau determined that same-sex couples (3.1%) are three times more likely to have adopted children than opposite-sex couples (1.1%). Data from 2019 revealed that 43.3% of same-sex couples’ children were adopted and/or stepchildren.
A government-sponsored adoption law in Uruguay allowing LGBT adoption was approved by the lower house on 28 August 2009, and by the Senate on 9 September 2009. In October 2009, the law was signed by President and took effect. [108] According to Equipos Mori Poll's, 53% of Uruguayans are opposed to same sex adoption against 39% that support it.
More conservative Republicans wanted the party to re-adopt a version of the 2019 platform, a 14-page document with a decades-old framework that maintains same-sex marriage opposition and stronger ...
The book, gay-banning parents movement has reached liberal California and activists are using Pride Month to bring their Florida-styled, hate-fueled, conservative culture war grievances to school ...
California voters will decide in 2024 whether to enshrine the right to same-sex marriage in the state constitution, a chance for them to permanently remove an inactive ban on same-sex marriage ...
Also in 2012, California became the first state to sign a ban on therapy that claims to convert gay people into heterosexual. However, the law is as of 2013 held up in federal courts on first amendment grounds. [57] [58] In 2013, in the case Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v.
[53] [54] The campaigns for and against Proposition 8 raised $39.0 million ($11.3 million or 29.1% from outside California) and $44.1 million ($13.2 million or 30.0% from outside California), respectively, [55] from over 64,000 people in all 50 states and more than 20 foreign countries, setting a new record nationally for a social policy ...