Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.
Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.
I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.
And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'
From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.
So many people have so much trouble having kids.
I always knew I wanted to have children.
I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.