7.1.2026 Virginia officially becomes tge 17th State to restore adoptee rights. Virginia Adoptee Rights Alliance

Congrats Virginia! Today HB 301 was signed by Governor Spanberger, Virginia becomes the 17th state to restore an adoptee's right to their original birth certificate. The new law will take effect on July 1, 2026! 🥚

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I’m Tired of Being Grateful It’s time to call it what it is — abuse

When I scroll through pictures from my life I think of how much I needed my mom. She was kept hidden from me by so many people that knew and could’ve just said her name and it really hurts.
#adopteerights
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Not every state requires that à fictional birth certificate be issued when a person requires substitute care. Adopters in those states can opt to respect a persons identity ànd retain the original. #adoption #adopteerights #identity #humanrights #family

What is so painful for so many adoptees is that the answers are there - people are purposefully keeping it from us. #adopteerights

The health experiences of adoptees in the UK You are being invited to take part in an online survey about the health experiences of adopted adults in the UK. The survey is being carried out by adoptee Katharine Quarmby and her project is funded ...

Fellow adoptees, I need your help! I'm doing a journalism project on how the NHS treats adoptees, including a survey. It's anonymous and will take 5-15 minutes to do. More info in the survey: forms.gle/xXeiGJ1fJcrZbjfu7

#adoption #adopteerights #adopteehealth

You’re not betraying your adoptive parents by looking for your family. They are betraying you if they are upset instead of helping you.
#adoptiontruths #adopteerights

Why California Must Restore Adoptees' Access to Their Own Birth Certificates The question is not why now? The question is, why was this ever allowed at all?

“My adoptive family knew my mother's name and my father's name my whole life. She did not have anonymity. She did not have confidentiality. The only person her identity was kept from was me.”
#adopteerights #humanrights #adoption
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This means my birth mother and I can now FOIA the records and find out how the hell I was illegally taken from her and adopted to somebody else. It will also help my (adoptive) parents because they feel awful and had no idea I was stolen from my birth mother. #adopteerights #adoption

If you don’t care about what your child was literally created from and care about them knowing that and their family, history, and heritage - then you don’t really care about the child. That’s not being a parent - that’s being an abuser.
#adoption #adopteerights #abuseisnotlove

You don’t create a child or adopt a child because you want to ‘start a family’ or ‘become a parent’ and then say this child does not have the right to their identity, heritage, family, and history. That’s not being a ‘parent’ and it’s child abuse not love.

#childrights #adopteerights

#AdopteeVoices #AdopteeRights #AdoptedPeopleRock 🥚🧾

Why California Must Restore Adoptees' Access to Their Own Birth Certificates The question is not why now? The question is, why was this ever allowed at all?

“Adoptees are the only citizens expected to make medical decisions, reproductive decisions, and life decisions without access to complete and accurate information about ourselves.”

#adoption #humanrights #adopteerights #reproductiverights #womensrights
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Why California Must Restore Adoptees' Access to Their Own Birth Certificates The question is not why now? The question is, why was this ever allowed at all?

Do you know that most adoptees have two birth certificates? The original with the accurate record of our births is sealed at adoption and a new falsified ‘birth certificate’ is created.
#originalbirthcertificate #vitalrecords #adoption #adopteerights

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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...

"A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians...

#USVeteran #AdopteeRights #StopDeportations #ImmigrationReform

Adoptees take DNA tests, hire searchers, pay to beg courts to give them their birth certificates while the people that easily have the answers we desperately need sit back and watch and purposefully conceal this basic information. #adopteerights

Sign the Petition Provide Unrestricted Access to Original Birth Certificates to California born Adoptees

Help California Adult Adoptees get their original birth certificates!
#Adoptees
#AdopteeRights
#BirthCertificates

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#California #AdoptedPeople #Parents and #Allies ~ get involved in this fight for #AdopteeRights and #EqualityForAll!!!
#Adopteesky 🥚🧾✨

More good #AdopteeRights news:
CA SB381 passed unanimously in the Senate!

Go @caladoptees.bsky.social!!!

#Adopteesky #EqualityForAll 🥚🧾

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To International Adoptees and the People Who Love Them: You Are Not Alone - Beyond Words Psychological Services Resources for internationally adopted citizens and commentary on collective trauma.

To International Adoptees and the People Who Love Them: You Are Not Alone

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#adopteerights #internationaladoptionsupport #adopteecitizenship #adoptioneducation #adoptiontrauma #adopteevoices

Official USCIS information and application page:

www.uscis.gov/n-600

If you’re an international adoptee, check your status. Share this. Protect yourself and others.

#InternationalAdoptee #AdopteeRights #CitizenshipMatters #N600 #CertificateOfCitizenship #USCIS #AdopteeAdvocacy

🤦🏻‍♀️Adoptees STILL have to fight for basic rights. It’s mine. Give it to me.

Btw, How many lawmakers are adopted?…yet they make laws that affect us
#Adoptee
#AdopteeRights
#AdopteeVoices
#AdoptionReform

California SB381 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session Summary (2026-01-20) Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates. [January 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.]

California Adoptees and Equal Rights supporters everywhere, 🥚
Another way to make your voice heard re: SB381 is the comment section on Legiscan.
Please leave a quick comment of support if you can (and “like” any comments you agree with). Education is important right now. #adopteerights

I’m a 57 year old adoptee from California and still do not have my original birth certificate.
#adopteerights #yesonSB381

Why California Must Restore Adoptees' Access to Their Own Birth Certificates The question is not why now? The question is, why was this ever allowed at all?

“And these violations don't stop with the adoptee—they create generational trauma and generational rights violations that affect our children and our children's children.”

#breakthecycle #generationaltrauma #adopteerights
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“My adoptive family knew my mother's name and my father's name my whole life. She did not have anonymity. She did not have confidentiality. The only person her identity was kept from was me.”
#adopteerights #adoption

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Why California Must Restore Adoptees' Access to Their Own Birth Certificates The question is not why now? The question is, why was this ever allowed at all?

Adoptees are the only citizens denied their own birth records. California never had the right to seal them. It’s time to restore what was taken.
#AdopteeRights #HumanRights

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Paris Hilton spoke to Congress about institutional child abuse and she explicitly mentions adopted people yet,

UK child protection reform is happening, adoption is still treated as the silent exception.

#AdopteeRights #SAAM #ChildProtection

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If you haven’t called thé members of the California Appropriations Committee yet to urge them to pass SB 381, please do so now. You can be a part of restoring equality for people adopted in the state of California. #sb381 #freetheobcs #equality #justice #adopteerights #CAAR

New blog - “Human rights do not disappear at adoption.”
#adopteerights #humanrights

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