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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need to find out what "rejected" means in this case, preferably from the parents themselves.

I'm not trying to be flip or to minimize the pain of parents' nonacceptance. However, as a LGBTQ adult raising a LGBTQ kid (and a cishet kid), [b]I can tell you that this generation is...excitable. Anything short of a personal pride parade is received as lack of acceptance. 
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So...figure out what "rejected" means here. Is it kind of reluctant acceptance? Confusion but general desire to understand? Or is it being thrown out of the house or threatened with violence? [/quote]

Thank you.  I have found some of this...a bit alarming.   Statistics just don't support the sheer number of kids (mostly girls) that seem to be LGBTQ+ at my kids' school now.  I'm a little puzzled by it.  (I know this is off topic, sorry).

OP--I think you need to find out what "rejected" means, exactly.  Like the PPs have said.[/quote]

PP here. This is a hard topic, because there are transphobes whipping up fear of "sudden onset gender dysphoria" (not a real thing) and therefore it is very difficult to have a reasonable discussion on DCUM about the statistically improbably number of pre-teen and teen kids,[b] mostly assigned female at birth, [/b]who currently identify as trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, or some other variation on gender non-conforming.

Then you add the kids who identify as cisgender but identify as som varient of queer (gay, bi, pan, poly, ace, demi, etc).

Even super accepting parents, and even LGBQ parents, can end up a little confuddled. It doesn't help that teens, developmentally, believe their generation personally invented every single human experience, and that no one born before them could possibly understand their struggle/identity.

News at 11: Teens are annoying and self-centered and not overly keen on learning from or acknowledging the experiences of their elders. Shocker! [/quote]

Hmmm… I wonder why all these poor kids were arbitrarily assigned female at birth.  [/quote]

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