Start Advocating for
Your LGBTQ+ Child
Our children are growing up in a country that debates their lives in legislatures, school board meetings, courtrooms, and congregations. We care about the policies that touch them most directly, and we speak up for or against those policies based on one question: what does this do to our children’s wellbeing? We are a nonpartisan 501(c)(3), and families of every political stripe belong here. We talk about policy, not parties, and we assume the best of the people we’re talking to, because many of them are parents too.
Issues We Care About
Book Bans & Content Restrictions
Conversion Therapy
Transgender Rights
Forced Outing Policies
See what’s happening in your state on our Legislative Tracker.
Where Moms Make a Difference
The conversation about LGBTQ+ children happens in many places, and the mothers in our community have found themselves in all of them.
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At Home: It happens across the kitchen table, in the talk with a spouse, a grandparent, or a friend - the conversation that nobody wants to start.
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In Faith Communities: It happens where questions about LGBTQ+ people are often wrestled with openly and privately, in pews, classrooms, and fellowship halls of many traditions.
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At School Boards: It happens where a mother’s words about her own child carry a weight no statistic can. Conversations about trans rights, bathroom bills, and book bans.
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In Legislatures and Courts: It happens in legislative halls, and at the Supreme Court, where some of the biggest cases of our time are decided. Conversations about anti-LGBTQ legislation, conversion therapy, and transgender rights.
What Advocacy Looks Like
Mothers in our community have written op-eds, testified, sat in difficult meetings, and had courageous conversations that didn’t always change minds in the moment but opened hearts over time. They've spoken on everything from transgender rights and bathroom bills to book bans, anti-LGBTQ legislation and forced outing bills. They have shown up at both celebrations and protests. They've hosted booths and film screenings in their local communities. Others have done quieter things: written a letter, gone to one meeting, or simply been the person in the room who says, “I love my child, and I’m still learning.”
How to Get Started
Check the Legislative Tracker for bills in your state (coming soon)
Take an advocacy class through Empowered Parent Learning
Listen to some of our Mama Dragons members speaking at events