• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    11 months ago

    So the schools (government) should have more control over a young persons sexual development then their parents?

    Unfortunately, when it comes to LGBTQ+ students, parents are quite often the problem, not the solution.

    I’d love to live in a world where gay kids could feel safe coming out to their own families, but unfortunately that isn’t reality for entirely too many kids.

    So it falls on the larger society to support them and explain that what they are feeling is part of a larger spectrum and they shouldn’t feel ashamed of who they are.

    Maybe when we reach that day, they won’t be 4x more likely to attempt suicide than their heteronormative peers.

    https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/facts-about-lgbtq-youth-suicide/