#adoptees! This is going to be GREAT.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ek7k6sjcntkofjcaclv6c27i/post/3mi5lpio2x225

I was glad to see some national coverage of this important but unfamiliar issue. #adopteesonadoption #adoptees Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/foreign-adoptees-citizenship-immigration-enforcement.html

I’m proud of the work #adoptees and birthparents have done over generations to create a systematic critique of our culture’s addiction to adoption & its dependence on a horrifically predatory adoption industry. I praise ther willingness to speak truth, knowing they will earn endless abuse for it. +

if you don’t like the idea that #adoptees are treated as other people’s property—despite there being a $34 billion market in children—then maybe we can agree that adoptees’ legal identities are other people’s property. “I want a child to call my own.” OK, here’s a piece of paper that proves it

If you can, please support VA #adoptees in their effort to regain their rights to their own vital records!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y4bbj2ob5ayyt5nqkho7vuw6/post/3mg36nrp2uc2s

my fellow cis people should shut up and understand the gravity of the situation. adopted people have *also* known for generations that the state will decree whatever it wishes about a person’s identity. Intercountry #adoptees know that caprices with paperwork can lead to seizure and disappearance.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a4bv5duvv4yfvtp6uelsbavz/post/3mfrd3j4e6c2s

yes I do hope that the ACLU does right by trans people and their control over their own identifying documents, because they sure as fuck don’t stand up for #adoptees in OUR fight.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:knmrg7m2op7czoamiofzegxe/post/3mfq3zjbuwk2l

Martin Short’s adopted daughter died by suicide. I don’t know how familiar people are with the prevalence of suicide and suicidality among #adoptees. One frequently cited study concluded that adopted people are four times as likely to attempt suicide as non-adoptees.

Risk of Suicide Attempt in Ado...