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[quote=Anonymous]Gay 46 year old man here.

First, let him figure this out in his own. There is a lot to unpack here but he will sort his way through it.

Your son is coming out in a different world tha. Existed when we were his age. And fortunately he is ignorant to how much the world changed in the last 25 years. He doesn’t know a world where literally most people disapprove of your lifestyle and most people literally vote to ensure that you don’t have equal rights and he doesn’t live in a world where he is legally lesser than others.

Trans men and women are very different than gay men and lesbians but we share a heritage of being oppressed in society. Our struggles are largely different but we shared our safe spaces. The politics between the groups are complicated. Those who are trans are minority of our minority and they largely feel that we gay men and lesbians abandoned them in accepting rights for ourselves knowingly leaving them behind. And it is a fair criticism. It’s exactly what we did. I don’t regret it for a moment. We were the larger group and we didn’t want to wait another year or 10 or 50 for us to receive equality. And it is why I believe so strongly in trans rights today.

But your son doesn’t get that because he didn’t struggle. And I don’t regret that either. But in him not struggling he has lost something that united lgbt people for decades.

Learning the history of our people is a journey he will take without you. I’m sure he’ll be fine.

And for what it is worth and I’m sure there will be some naysers in here, almost invariably your son is gay and not bi. So don’t be unprepared if/when he shares that news with you in the future.

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