Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. But some parents and teachers wonr if the kids are too young to really know their sexual orientatn.
Contents:
- COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- WHEN GOG TO THE STORE WH YOUR 10-YEAR-OLD GAY SON IS A POLIL ACT
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
- GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
COMG OUT AS GAY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1% of 9- and 10-year-olds say that they may be gay, bisexual, or transgenr, acrdg to a new study published JAMA Pediatrics. 2% of the participants said that they were gay or bi, and 0.
7% said that they were “maybe” gay or bi, and 0. 26% were found to be gay, bi, or transgenr. Related: Y, a 9-year-old n know they are gay.
WHEN GOG TO THE STORE WH YOUR 10-YEAR-OLD GAY SON IS A POLIL ACT
7% said that their 9- or 10-year-old child is “maybe” gay or bi, and another 1. Calvo said that the data n be ed to help fight homophobia and transphobia. Gay ndidate Chris Pappas ws the Democratic primary for U.
This stunt needs 6 creds to graduate, but his school won’t let him bee he’s gay. ”Dannielle Owens-Reid and Krist Rso, -founrs of Everyone Is Gay and -thors of This Is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids, attribute lower g-out ag to the power of reprentatn. The next generatn is growg up wh gay characters on their televisns, pansexual rappers on their playlists, and queer micro-muni on their Tumblr the change also means that there is a new generatn of fai scramblg to raise LGBT kids who have specific needs and challeng — kids who are growg up a society that, while creasgly LGBT-tolerant, is still plagued by hate crim, job discrimatn, and the more banal, everyday sort of homophobia borne by sual ignorance.
“Beg gay was somethg I never really qutned, ” said Chloe Charbonne, a 12-year-old om Stockbridge, Massachetts. ”Like Kate Ree, Chloe spent early childhood sred and nfed about cshg on girls, pecially after beg lled an anti-gay slur for the first time the fourth gra. “From then on, I pretend to like boys, bee I thought that [gay] was a wrong thg to be.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
They first intified as gay, then, a few months later, also began intifyg as genrls (as a rult, Chloe now prefers “they” and “them” pronouns).
Amelia, a Midwtern mother of a 10-year-old boy who first began intifyg as gay when he was 7, said that her son’s unabashed outns tends to startle many adults who would rather not thk about children havg sexual sir.
“When they thk of gay people, they thk of sexually active people, ” she said. ”Amelia, through her blog and teractns wh the adults her gay son’s life, tri to battle this stigma.
GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
“As a society, if we n open up our ia to what gay means, we n be a lot ls unfortable wh the ia of children intifyg, ” she said. “Maybe he’s not really gay, ” adults have said to Amelia about her hears all the time too.
“Before this current generatn of kids, children weren’t raised wh gay people, ” Amelia said.
“They weren’t raised knowg what gay was.