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My son is gay. He is the second child of my two children (oldest is a straight female).
I'm not 100% sure when he knew--I think he was very confused, but by the time he was 18 he had come to terms with it. Prior to that I think he struggled for years in a turmoil but once he knew and was "out" he was like a changed person; unbelievable really. Did I know as a parent when he was younger? Not really. He wasn't drawn to girly things or clothing. Pretty much enjoyed all the usual boy types of toys and activities, although not big into sports but that's no indicator. As an adult he enjoys going to baseball games so he likes them to some degree. Interestingly, he only ever had a handful of male friends that were close as a child and he was much more comfortable hanging out with girls. Still is today.
Here's an interesting part in our family. On my husband's side there are 3 siblings. Oldest sibling had 2 boys--one is gay. 2nd sibling had 3 children--two boys and 1 girl--one son is gay; and then there's my husband who is the youngest of his siblings and we have 2 children, boy/girl, son is gay. I honestly find that really fascinating.
Anyway, for my son, it's really no choice at all. More than anything, he wants to marry and have children but it's a tough road for him. It's been really tough for him to find that one partner and that's all he wants.
Liberals say that homosexuals can't change because they were "born that way", yet a transgender can be born one way and change to another. Please explain.
Well, I don’t know the answers to any of this, but the actual argument would be that someone who is transgender was born that way as well, and know early that they are the opposite gender of the body they were born in.
Compassion doesn’t require understanding. It just requires empathy.
Specifically environmental factors like exposure to endocrine disruptors in utero. And documented physical brain differences that more resemble the gender they identify with.
Thank you for those links. It is amazing how much we don't know, or don't want to know, about this. Kind of like the pro-abortionists who don't want to know that an unborn baby is a different human being than the mother. If there is a scientific cause for these "gender identities" and "sexualities", I think we owe it to ourselves to understand it.
If it could be proven that there are biological causes, that would be beneficial to the LBGTQ+. It conforms to their argument that they were born that way. So they should support the research.
However, if it could be proven that there is some chemical/substance that is the cause, we would be faced with the question: should this substance be banned or controlled? For example, if we found out what caused the chromosome abnormality in Downs Syndrome, would we prevent it or allow it to continue?
It was interesting. I was in High School when the Sonny and Cher show was on TV, and at the end of each show they'd bring Chastity out, in some overdone lacy fluffy dress. And everyone said she looked like a boy in a dress. Even as a 2 year old, she seemed male. And we all saw it.
My son is gay. He is the second child of my two children (oldest is a straight female).
I'm not 100% sure when he knew--I think he was very confused, but by the time he was 18 he had come to terms with it. Prior to that I think he struggled for years in a turmoil but once he knew and was "out" he was like a changed person; unbelievable really. Did I know as a parent when he was younger? Not really. He wasn't drawn to girly things or clothing. Pretty much enjoyed all the usual boy types of toys and activities, although not big into sports but that's no indicator. As an adult he enjoys going to baseball games so he likes them to some degree. Interestingly, he only ever had a handful of male friends that were close as a child and he was much more comfortable hanging out with girls. Still is today.
Here's an interesting part in our family. On my husband's side there are 3 siblings. Oldest sibling had 2 boys--one is gay. 2nd sibling had 3 children--two boys and 1 girl--one son is gay; and then there's my husband who is the youngest of his siblings and we have 2 children, boy/girl, son is gay. I honestly find that really fascinating.
Anyway, for my son, it's really no choice at all. More than anything, he wants to marry and have children but it's a tough road for him. It's been really tough for him to find that one partner and that's all he wants.
I'm all fine with people deciding this in their adolescence and making a decision when they hit adulthood. I am perfectly tolerant of gays and transgenders as adults. Do what you want. What I don't support is use of pharmaceutical drugs and surgical procedures in anyone under the age of 18, or use of insurance money for gender procedures, which in my opinion should be considered akin to cosmetic surgery. It's irresponsible. We call them minors because they often don't have the maturity to make major life decisions. At least give them time to think it over.
I believe much of it is simply cultural grooming. Young people are insecure and have a strong desire to "fit in" to a group and get approval from authority figures. Often the groups they fit into change as they grow up. It's a natural part of adolescence. I don't understand why the left is so obsessed with sexualizing minors. I think part of it is people at the top giving orders, and people down below following them. People need to stop just accepting what their bosses tell them to do. If you don't stick up for what you believe in, and sell out for money, don't be surprised when you wake up one day under tyranny.
Culture is always being "groomed" by those in charge... it just seems normal to the people living in that culture. When things change, naturally there is resistance.. but you have to ask yourself here.... what is really best for the culture and species? I guess it doesn't affect me if some single mother changes her child's gender aside from all the welfare and tax money that goes to fund this nonsense, because you know the people doing this are all on the government dole.
"Watching the conversation around this, it’s hard not to feel like, to the extent there is any “social contagion” here, it’s among adults, who’ve whipped themselves into such a frenzy that they can find themselves repeating some humiliating nonsense. Perhaps the stupidest of which is a new talking point about what accommodating children’s gender identity has led to.
I even heard from one person who recently said that a that-that a student identified as a cat and wanted a litter box.
They think they’re a cat, a cat. They put tails on and they demand that they have a litter box in the school.
We’ve literally got kids who think they’re cats and dogs using litter boxes in classrooms.
I’m still hearing from students and parents. They believe there is a litter box in that school. And when everybody will turn the other cheek to allegations. A rumor is just a rumor until it becomes true."
John: The fact you seem to genuinely think that’s happening is just heartbreakingly stupid. Because when you think about it for literally two seconds, the whole thing falls apart. For one, if kids were using litter boxes in class, a state representative from Minnesota wouldn’t be the one breaking that news to you. You would have ****ing heard about it. If a kid shat in a litterbox in first period, it would be the only thing anyone in that state was talking about by lunch. Minnesota would change its state motto to “Minnesota — y’know, the state where that kid **** in a litterbox.” And notably, young people are showing up in public forums where adults are fearmongering about letting trans kids into youth sports and bathrooms, and trying to talk some sense into them. https://youtu.be/Ns8NvPPHX5Y?t=725
My husband thinks that early molestation of little boys by men could also cause an otherwise straight male to favor males over women. I don’t know, but perhaps this is true. I can also see how a girl who was molested by men could perhaps reject men and turn to women as an adult.
Like I’ve said before, until somebody can prove otherwise, I think transgenderism is a mental illness, and no way on earth would I change my child’s natural body. Chromosomes don’t lie.
She's going to pull her kids from the school. It's real and it's happening. And she's p-ssed about it because she just worked her @zz off on a school fundraiser for them.
Admin put a litter box in the bathroom. And her kid got an F because he said there are only 2 sexes.
Gaslighting is not appreciated.
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