Love alone is not enough to protect your transracially adopted child from the difficulties they will face. This episode aims to highlight strategies for raising children with intersecting identities, and shed light on the resources that are available today.

In this episode of the Real World Parenting podcast, Dr. Laura Anderson brings on a special guest to discuss the intersecting identities of being LGBTQ+ and adopted. Mark Hagland recounts his struggle finding himself between interacting with Korean people who don't understand his gay identity and interacting with white LGBTQ+ people who don't understand his POC identity.

Mark Hagland is an adult transracial and international adoptee. He was born in South Korea in 1960 and adopted as an infant by white parents of Norwegian and German descent, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He  ...