this kind of anonymity is, as a practical matter, completely gone. Better to let #adoptees know their parentage via their own records than to force them to find out via the privacy-obliterating expedient of public, online DNA databases.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y4bbj2ob5ayyt5nqkho7vuw6/post/3mcg53zydrs27

i’m nervous af about the fate of the CA open records bill for #adoptees. Historically, CA has been a leading pro-adoption state, at least as far back as Georgia Tann, who found an eager audience there—as well as a list of wealthy baby buyers. And celebrity culture has been pro-adoption ever since.

anyone who REALLY cares about protecting the privacy of birthparents needs to consider whether giving #adoptees unrestricted access to their OBCs is worse than having them resort to DNA databases, which are to privacy what a bull is to a china shop.

to anyone in a position to help CA #adoptees by making a call: it would be EPIC for adoptee rights if we could turn CA into an open-records state!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xr5g322zm2popcs7gfeudtil/post/3mcdreju2zc2l

CA people could really do #adoptees a solid by calling their reps *immediately* to voice support for SB-381, a clean bill giving CA adoptees access to their original birth certificates.

adopters are not the only people prone to swallowing the Savior Narrative. i personally think it is extremely weird for anyone at all to feel compelled to express gratitude for having been born. but since #adoptees are eternal charity cases, we’re expected to thank everyone.

NY Adoptee Rights Coalition with a letter in support of CA SB381, which would give CA #adoptees unrestricted access to their own birth records. “Since the law's enactment, NYARC has not heard any negative stories from birth parents, who have also been some of our most active advocates and allies. +

If this bill passes and Californian #adoptees are at last allowed see their own birth records, it would be a huge win. CA is a prize.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kf7wnobjr4hironogsltvjk3/post/3mbtuv2zx7k2g

i was in an online meetup for #adoptees, and folks were talking about their Substacks (I quit Substack) and what’s happening on Facebook and Instagram (fuck Meta, I struggle with whether to delete my accounts there). so here I am, going solo (as ever), screaming into the emptiness 🫥

the most progressive, liberated, egalitarian people in the world will crinkle their noses at #adoptees who voice outrage at loss of access to their family health history, and they will explain to us why it doesn’t matter as much as we think it does. paternalism is alive and well.