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LGBTQ+-Familien: Normalität herstellen und um Anerkennung kämpfen

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Prof. Mona Motakef, Dr. Julia Teschlade, and Prof. Christine Wimbauer (from left to right) stand next to each other in front of a poster wall. Julia Teschlade holds up a book. The three are conducting research as part of a DFG project on LGBTQ+ families and their quest for normality and recognition. © © Privat
Prof. Mona Motakef, Dr. Julia Teschlade, and Prof. Christine Wimbauer (from left to right) have investigated how LGBTQ+ families establish normality and fight for recognition as part of a DFG project.
LGBTQ+-Familien – also lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* und queere Familien – sind in den letzten Jahren in der Gesellschaft sichtbarer geworden. Im deutschen Recht zeichnen sich mit der „Ehe für alle“ und dem Selbstbestimmungsgesetz Tendenzen der Gleichstellung ab. Trotzdem bestehen zahlreiche Diskriminierungen fort und es zeigen sich auch neue Ausschlüsse. Im Interview spricht die TU-Professorin für Soziologie der Geschlechterverhältnisse, Prof. Mona Motakef, gemeinsam mit Dr. Julia Teschlade und Prof. Christine Wimbauer von der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin über Erkenntnisse aus ihrer gemeinsamen Forschung. Das Team hat im Rahmen eines DFG-Projekts mit LGBTQ+-Familien gesprochen und untersucht, wie diese Normalität herstellen, für Anerkennung kämpfen – und damit gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen nachhaltig verändern.

Headline: Prof. Motakef, where do LGBTQ+ families still encounter obstacles in everyday life?

Prof. Mona Motakef: Sexual orientation and gender identity are still key causes of social inequality and go hand in hand with unequal opportunities and life chances. LGBTQ+ people have long been denied the ability to start families at all. The first hurdle is therefore being able to imagine themselves as parents. Only then can they think about which options are open to them and which ones they want to take advantage of. After all, who can, wants to, should or may become parents depends on legal, medical, biological and personal factors - it is often very complicated and expensive, especially with reproductive medicine. Even after starting a family, many experience legal, institutional and everyday inequalities. Examples include the obligation to adopt stepchildren for lesbian couples or the lack of rights for social parents in multi-parent families. Trans* parenthood was even made legally impossible in the old Transsexuals Act. It is still not clearly regulated today - a trans* mother remains registered as the father on her child's birth certificate. In everyday life, this means that families have to constantly prove that they are "real" families.

You can read the full interview on the TU Dortmund University website

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