I just finished the background research for my letter about the subject. Since I can't be there next Thursday I'm going to write a message to some of the MPs who supported the registration law few years ago. This message might not have any effect at all but at least I've tried the best I can.
I've always considered myself unsuitable for a mother. Not because I'm gay (I think that would only be a positive thing) but because I fear I might become MY mother: inpatient and hypocrite whose raising methods include public humiliation, lying and double standard.
Now I’ve started thinking differently. I have quite possibly fallen to the very illusion that makes the humankind survive and continue its existence but I keep thinking I would be a better parent than my own. I would tell my children I love them regularly, I wouldn’t lie to them, I wouldn’t humiliate them like my mother did, I wouldn’t use them to hurt others by turning them against those people… in short, I would treat them as a loving mother should. I’m just afraid I couldn’t keep these thoughts and then become my mother.
But if I were able to conquer those fears and found a loving woman by my side, I would want to have the possibility to have a family by artificial insemination. I do hope the MPs don’t go veiling their own prejudices with the illusion of what they think is better for children. A loving parent isn’t genitals, it’s a real person with feelings, capability to love (be the object a man or a woman) and feel empathy. Why can’t they see that?
