For most kids, the social prsur of middle school are tough enough. But an creasg number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are g out as gay or lbian middle school. Beno Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend the New York Tim Magaze, discs what social factors uld be leadg young people to e out earlier.
Contents:
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR KID IS GAY
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
* can a 12 year old be gay *
Homosexual (gay or lbian).
GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
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People who are homosexual are romantilly and physilly attracted to people of the same sex: femal are attracted to other femal; mal are attracted to other mal.
WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
Homosexuals (whether male or female) are often lled "gay. " Gay femal are also lled lbian.
Beg straight, gay, or bisexual is not somethg that a person n choose or choose to change.
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
It is timated that about 10% of people are gay. Gay people are reprented all walks of life, across all natnali, ethnic backgrounds, and all social and enomic groups.
Beg gay is also not nsired a mental disorr or abnormaly. Dpe myths and misnceptns, there is no evince that beg gay is ed by early childhood experienc, parentg styl, or the way someone is raised.
EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
Efforts to change gay people to straight (sometim lled "nversn therapy") have been proven to be effective and n be harmful. Knowg one's sexual orientatn — whether straight or gay — is often somethg that kids or teens regnize wh ltle doubt om a very young age. Some gay teens say they had same-sex csh childhood, jt as their heterosexual peers had oppose-sex csh.
By middle school, as they enter adolcence, many gay teens already regnize their sexual orientatn, whether or not they have revealed to anyone else.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR KID IS GAY
Those who didn't realize they were gay at first often say that they always felt different om their peers, but didn't exactly know why. But the experienc, by themselv, do not necsarily mean that a teen is gay or straight.