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One of the ma issu wh trackg when kids intify as gay is that most people assume that all kids start out straight.

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WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WERE GAY?

Taylor shar the story of a viral 3-year-old boy who plays wh dolls, lov drsg up as Elsa om Disney's Frozen, and clar that he is gay. "He proudly says, 'I'm gay! Is three too young to know that you're gay?

The kids that played wh toys not meant for their genr were much more likely to be homosexual 12 years later. There are boys who play wh dolls and end up straight, as well boys who didn't and are gay. Taylor didn't realize he was gay until he was 18-years-old.

AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?

Of the llege stunts they surveyed, 26% of self-intified gay and bisexual llege stunts beme aware of their sexual preference llege, 48% high self-intified gay and bisexual men, 20% knew junr high school, and 17% knew gra school. Wh women, 6% knew junr high school, and 11% knew gra a 3-year-old don't fully unrstand what beg gay means (even the nt admted that he uld change his md  the future), a fay allowg their son to fearlsly be whoever he wants to be om such an early age uld be monumental his formative years. Then he addrsed the class, stctg each to take out a piece of paper and a pen and wre down the moment when we all realized we were gay.

I had already been asked a ln tim, "When did you know you were gay", but I was thrilled to have someone state the qutn aloud, the ntext of an amic exercise. If I was gay, I wonred if meant that I would be required to cut my hair to a buzzcut like the (first, ostensibly) lbian (I had ever nfirmed as such) my mother had poted out to me at the Ralph Lren outlet a middle-class untry town you might fd somewhere like Vermont; a untry town where you might fd lbians.

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