Let's just take a step back now and ask who are the real baddies in this scenario: people who just want to live their best and most honest lives, and loving one another, or the people who want to have the right to discriminate and express hatred and bigotry? 8 This, from the people who love to shout "FREEDOM" at people who just want them to wear a mask and prevent the spread of disease, and should "CENSORSHIP" at people who criticize transphobic jokes on TV. And it is NOT going to happen - we have only just begun to fight. This is just conservatives' way of trying to force people back into the closet. Simply put, if your idea of a fit way to raise a child is to make them hate themselves, that's child abuse.Īlso, do these people not realize that there are gay teachers? Are these teachers supposed to censor themselves and just never, ever mention their partner or family, and deny who they are? These parents are abusing their children, and as far as I'm concerned, in treating them this way they lose all parental rights to raise them "as they see fit". If you had a violently anti-gay parent, who wanted to send you to church camp or conversion therapy to "pray away the gay", or who otherwise made you feel something was wrong with you, then your teacher would be your savior and only hope of escape. She has so much anger towards me.Sometimes teachers are the only people kids feel safe talking to. I also want to support her if she is dealing with her sexual orientation but she won't let me. Is this a trend? Should I be worried she's so hyperfocused on sex orientation and not other age appropriate things? I'd really hate for her to be rejected as the kid who makes everyone feel uncomfortable discussing this stuff at this age.
We live in Nashville now where it's pretty old-fashioned, but we were born and raised in Southern California where there wasn't this tension between the straight and the non-straights. We have members of our family and close friends who are gay or lesbian. I've talked with her about this and she thinks, again, I have issues with her being bi and doesn't get it that I'm concerned she's being too "in your face" about being bi and she's freaking out her peers.īTW, I've raised her to understand and accept the LGBT community without a doubt. So I fear she is being rude, making herself appear odd and isolating herself. And these girls are 6th graders and I highly doubt sexuality is on the forefront of their minds. Ok, so WTH? She 11 and I feel it's awfully young to focus this much on sexuality, gay, straight or other.
I mentioned that maybe there are other things they have in common and she made a concerning remark about straight people disliking the gay community and how she only connects with her bi, pan, gay, etc friends on tiktok and doesn't need these girls at school. They are straight and don't watch anime, so she has crossed them off her list. then today told me she doesn't hang around her old friends anymore as she doesn't like the same things they do. She seems really happy for 2 weeks at school. I was hoping being around peers would help her recover her cheerful, confident personality. She continued to sink into a depression and hate me after we started online school so I sent her back to regular on-campus school even though I'm concerned about Covid. My daughter's mental health was in a bad place and I got her a therapist. I don't mind that she's bi (or whatever!) but she crossed serious boundaries speaking with a younger child about inappropriate sexual stuff and the porn. I think she might have confused the reasons I blocked this cousin. Somehow, my daughter identified as being bi-sexual at this time and became hateful towards me for cutting her off from her cousin. We've cut all communications now for 6 months. I didn't know at the time, but the cousin was sharing WAY too much information about how she is bi-sexual, taught her details about all the forms of alternative lifestyles and introduced her to pornography. During Covid 19 & lockdown, she was on the phone & messages constantly with her cousin back home in California who is 14.
#PORN GAY MEN 13 YEAR OLD HOW TO#
I'm struggling here with how to be supportive while guiding my 11-year-old's behavior.