Judge strips lesbian mother of her parental rights & grants custody to the sperm donor

In a case that is extremely worrisome for LGBTQ+ advocates, an Oklahoma judge has stripped a lesbian mother of her parental rights and instead granted them to her child’s sperm donor.

Oklahoma County District Judge Lynn McGuire ruled on Monday that Kris Williams no longer has legal rights over her son after divorcing her now ex-wife Rebekah Wilson. Wilson and Williams conceived their son together after finding sperm donor Harlan Vaughn on a paternity website. They got married while Wilson was pregnant.

After the couple’s contentious divorce, the judge made the decision to strip Williams of custody because Wilson was the one who gave birth to the couple’s son and Williams never formally adopted him. But typically, when a child is born to a married couple, both members of the couple become the presumed legal parents.

In this scenario, the judge ruled that was not the case because…

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