Legal Rights / PoliticsMinds being lost over Florida bill

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[–]hufflepuff-poet 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

This bill takes nothing from gay teenagers (gay children don’t exist) or the children of gay people.

More and more, I'm starting to think this is true. I've had a handful of students (IN MY THIRD GRADE CLASS?!) "come out" to me. I try very hard to be a safe person for my students and listen to what they have to say, but I have a hard time believing they actually know their LGB at that age and not just kids who have alot of emotions, social struggles and a desire for connection/solid social group. Sexual orientation requires sexual desire and feelings and an ability to process that (even as clumsily as teens try, atleast they can fumble their way through a consensual sexual/romantic experience with peers; a child cannot)

I'm not out at school (with my students) and I'm single rn so no pictures of a gf at my desk. And I'm increasingly weary of ever mentioning my orientation to kids for fear that they'll see me as another example of a "queer person" and inspire more "trans kids" 🙄

Had one of my students decide to get a "boy haircut" (her own words) and start going by "Jack" after we read "Jackie to Jack" a story about a tomboy who becomes a trans kid. This girl struggles socially, academically and has home life issues, ofc she wants to escape her life. So obvious this is a social contagion, sadly the area I work in is Wokesville and we actually do teach the gender crap to 3rd graders (with options for parent opt out)

[–]dilsencySame-sex community 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

(gay children don’t exist)

More and more, I'm starting to think this is true. [...] Sexual orientation requires sexual desire and feelings and an ability to process that

While I didn't know I was gay at the time, or what gay was, I remember being very interested in the older boys when I was in 3rd grade (so around 8–9 I guess). And showing no such interest in the girls. I don't think sexual desire is the only component of being same-sex attracted, all I wanted was a hug.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was drawn to boys before puberty as well. Not in a sexual way, obviously, but not in a just friend way.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is a good point. There are indicators of what sexual orientation a child would have when he or she grows up. When I was a small boy, I preferred sitting on my dad's lap than my mam's lap, and I stopped sitting on my mam years before I stopped sitting on my dad. But I was closer to my mam because she stayed at home and also took my grievances more seriously than dad did. Also when I was small, I liked being picked up and carried by my uncles and male older cousins, than by my aunts and female older cousins.

When I was child and we had guests come over, I got more attention from female guests than from male guests. But if a female guest ignored me, I ignored her as well. I was close to a lot of my aunts and older female cousins, but those women made a lot of effort to bond with me, so they easily won me over. Male guests would also seek my attention, but they didn’t have to. An uncle or older male cousin would visit the house and walk right pass me to talk to my dad or my mam, and I would follow him and sit next to him. He’d let me sit on his knee but he still focused on my dad or mam and otherwise ignored me. Which was still fine by me. I could remember being five or six and my aunt and uncle coming over to visit my parents. I played with and talked to my aunt, but I was leaning towards her while I was sitting on my uncle's knee, and my uncle was talking to my parents.

Maybe my parents knew I was gay all along.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Children have no sexual orientations whatsoever. They’re not gay, not bi, not straight. They simply cannot process sexual feelings or desires. They also have a shallow understanding of the differences between the sexes. It makes sense that groomers use the LGBT movement to prey on children, so that liberals won’t have a clue what is happening and will think that anyone speaking up against it is a homophobe.

I’m glad that parents can at least opt their out of these insidious lessons. But they should not be taught at all. No wonder you don’t want to come out to your pupils. It will confuse them. Which is incredibly sad, because before kids did not care about this stuff, but now they do but they cannot process it because woke activists have made this confusing on purpose.