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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be sure your kids know they can come to you about this stuff, and that you mean it, and you’re not going to have to worry about some silly survey.

If, on the other hand, your kid knows you would be incredibly displeased if they come out, they are not going to tell you, and they need support from other people in their lives.

[b]There’s not some middle ground where your kid who otherwise wouldn’t be gay or trans will become that way [/b]for the rest of their life because of a survey or because there’s a rainbow club at their private school. Seriously.

I had adults intervene and help me during high school, including not sharing things with my abusive parents, not about being gay but about other issues. It was huge and I’ve never forgotten it. Yeah it would have been better if my parents were different people and other adults didn’t have to withhold information from them but those weren’t the facts I was living with. [/quote]

I'll agree with you about being gay, but there is tons of evidence that trans identities are "contagious" within adolescent peer groups.[/quote]

If it is social contagion then it’s doubtful those kids are going to live as trans people their entire lives. What I’m saying is that this kind of thing really seems to be to be rooted in fear that a kid will be influenced into becoming something they are not. I just don’t really think that happens enough to worry it outweighs protecting the kids with homophobic parents. [/quote]

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