Would you want your small child to come to you if they thought they might be LGBT+, or would you rather they just figure it out on their own?

[IceCreamSandwich]

I would want them to come to me and talk to me about what's going on.

I would want them to keep me out of it and work all that out on their own.

[Prettygurl12]

I'd rather they come to me. I wouldn't be angry, but I imagine talking to them will help me figure out if this is for real or if they're just repeating things they're hearing. LGBTQ+ is a very real thing, but I think there's a big difference between knowing you're not heterosexual and just preferring to wear pants over dresses, and I don't believe a young child has the mental processing power to make that distinction.


Adjustments would likely need to be made in the home in order for them to continue to feel like they can be themselves. As a parent, your job first and foremost is to provide an environment where your offspring can be secure physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and financially.

[dustybiker]

Parenting is loving your child no matter what other people might agree or disagree with.

[Anonymous]

How would they know. That's why all that lgbtq stuff in schools is dangerous.

I believe there is going to be quite a few transexual adults post and pre op with regrets because they were given hormones when they were going through puberty.

[IceCreamSandwich]

They may not know the labels or anything, but they could still think they may like the same gender or something. It's not like public schools invented gay or trans.
So would you want them to come to you, or figure it out on their own?

[HighValue]

I'd want them to come to me so I could undo the damage their liberal teacher inflicted on them. I wouldn't let them have a smart phone or unsupervised access to the internet in the first place though for bad influences.

[IceCreamSandwich]

What if they didn't have any exposure to it, and don't even know the labels, they just think they may like the same gender or something? How would you undo damage if they had been homeschooled, and had no bad influences?

[SnowedIn]

Please come to mom and me. It's a crappy hard world to navigate regardless the issue and regardless of your sexuality. I love them and they don't have to go it alone.

[inhua]

better they talk to someone who has their best interest at heart than someone who doesn't have their best interest at heart

[AsaKyo]

I really don't care if they were gay or whatever, but if they come to me with that trans or that multiple gender crap, I'm gonna tell them to go figure it out on their own

[misogynistic_pig]

I would kick him out of the house.

[IceCreamSandwich]

At like, 7—do you mean you would put him up for adoption? And for what?

[Anonymous]

People are so nosy and judgmental. Let them figure it out on their own.