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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 6th/7th grade about half the girls in my son's grade claimed to be gay, bi, or nonbinary. Only a handful still say so - he's now mid-8th grade.[/quote]

Again, how do you know?  How are you tracking all of your son’s classmates and their professed sexual preferences from year to year?  Do you call them?  Call their mothers?  And what time of year do you gather the data?  At the beginning of the school year?  The end?

Seriously.  Tell us how you know this, and why it is that you care so much. [/quote]

I don't "care so much."

We are in a relatively small school. My son's estimation at the beginning of 7th grade was that about half the girls professed themselves to be gay, bi, or nonbinary. How did he know? They spoke up about it in class. They covered their backpacks with gay pride patches/buttons. They said out loud, "I'm bi." "My pronouns are they/theirs."

Now he says most of that is gone. Most of those same girls have boyfriends. They say, "I'm not gay anymore." or maybe "I'm still bi but now I like boys romantically." "My pronouns are she/hers."

My son doesn't care how people identify or who they're attracted to, with the exception of the one girl he likes and that he hopes likes him back. But for those of us who have kids who have kids who talk to us, the middle school romances are a huge part of the social scene, so yeah, I hear all about who likes who and how it's all playing it.

That is how I know. I know what he tells me. I'm not spying on these girls and seeing who they're kissing (if anyone) but simply reporting back what I hear, since the OP asked! [/quote]

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