What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• I THK MY 14 YEAR OLD IS GAY
• 15 YEAR OLD SON HAS JT ANNOUNCED HE IS GAY - ADVICE NEED ON BOUNDARI - LON
• LONDON FOR A 15 YEAR OLD GAY TEEN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• DONT WANT TO CAUSE OFFENCE- THK MY 5 YR OLD IS GAY!?
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

I THK MY 14 YEAR OLD IS GAY

It's a romance about a gay teenager who hasn't yet e out to his iends and fay. There's a great scene where Simon ponrs why gay people have to "e out" and imag how would be if his iends had to announce to their fai that they were straight.

A ee area for the discsn of issu facg those who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and all other sexual or nonsexual orientatns and/or genr inti.

15 YEAR OLD SON HAS JT ANNOUNCED HE IS GAY - ADVICE NEED ON BOUNDARI - LON

First, bee 12 is not too young for your dghter to know she’s gay—plenty of queer people report self-awarens at that age or earlier.

You’re worried about her enunterg homophobia, and I unrstand that, but I thk you also need to nsir the harm that uld rult om not beg able to be open about who she is. My bt iend was out onle and was gay, but now she’s a trans woman. Jordan Steffy, a gay teen, was ught on vio standg up to his bully, and the ter lled him a hero.

In November 2019, Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, said a fellow classmate posted a homophobic msage about him on Snapchat.

LONDON FOR A 15 YEAR OLD GAY TEEN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

When Steffy nonted the other stunt, the stunt lled him a homophobic slur. Clark, who is openly gay, cid to leave the ceremony stead of givg to the l.

DONT WANT TO CAUSE OFFENCE- THK MY 5 YR OLD IS GAY!?

"He told me that I was termated bee of my sexual orientatn and that they n't have someone that intifi as gay a learship posn, " Taylor told Insir. When Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian, was kicked out of his home for beg gay, he was worried he wouldn't be able to go to llege — until his teachers stepped . But at home, his relig parents found out that he was gay and told him to move he applied to his dream school, Geetown Universy, the school gave him a fancial aid package that was based on his parents' e even though he was not livg wh them.

"I would tell that sophomore kid to hold their head high, roll their shoulrs back and be exactly who they are, " Owen told NBC News. Keegan Roberts, a gay teenager, has bee one of the youngt elected officials the US at 19. It worked, and Roberts was elected to the cy uncil and beme one of the youngt openly gay elected officials the untry.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

A lawyer for the school nied the speech was blocked bee Young was gog to e out as gay, but bee he "didn't munite wh school admistrators and his parents and ed appropriate humor , " the Coloradoan LGBTQ advocy group named Out Boulr jumped and offered Young a safe space to give his valedictorian speech.