Our guest this week on What A Woman Podcast is Ranae Von Meding, a Dublin based writer, speaker and co-founder and CEO of Equality For Children, a not-for-profit organisation fighting for the rights of children born to LGBTQ+ families in Ireland. Ranae also has three children with her wife Audrey and has been campaigning for several years for her wife to be recognised as a legal parent to all of their children because of current laws in Ireland discriminating against LGBTQ+ families. We talked about:

- her upbringing in an ultra-orthodox, religious household

- when Ranae discovered she was queer in her early twenties

- how she had to cut contact with her mother for a period after she came out as queer and how that relationship healed

- going through reciprocal IVF with her wife Audrey to have their three children

- the devastation of realising her wife Audrey would be a legal stranger to their children because of the laws in Ireland

- how Ranae has campaigned for nine years to change legislation and is still in the position where her daughters now have two legal parents but her youngest son does not

- how Ranae has equipped her children to understand how they were born to two mums and how she would feel if they want to find their donor

- why it's crucial to have better representation of LGBTQ+ families in education/schools and media

To follow Ranae and support this important campaign go to:

www.equalityforchildren.ie

@ranaevonmeding