Honestly, you’re all a bunch of disgusting homophones. Especially OP. You say the “majority” of your “large public middle school” kids are coming out as gay or bi? That means hundreds. How can you possibly know that? Are you taking a poll? Calling every parent on the school directory and putting together a spreadsheet? Or is what’s really happening is that your kid and you are getting all worked up over a few kids talking about being gay and you’re extrapolating from that in a homophobic panic?

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this is sixth grade and to be honest, sixth grade boys can be pretty unappealing, so it could just be looking at the alternative, realizing, "I'm not attracted to any of them" and the girls come out the winner.

I was thinking the same thing. 6-8th grade boys are shorter than the girls, have not hit the throws of puberty, stink and generally look like little boys. As where half the girls look like grown women. I can see why they aren’t attracted to the boys as assume their are bi since their girl friends are appealing

Anonymous wrote:It’s just your child’s friend.

My child’s friend 0%.

Does that mean 0% are gay/Bu, no.

What you our experience is called confirmed bias.

Let me guess. Your child is either a boy, or in a popular/athletic crowd, or both.

It’s just your child’s friend.

My child’s friend 0%.

Does that mean 0% are gay/Bu, no.

What you our experience is called confirmed bias.

They’re coming out as lgbt even in elementary school too. I definitely think it’s influenced by social media and media.

Seeing this is sixth grade and to be honest, sixth grade boys can be pretty unappealing, so it could just be looking at the alternative, realizing, "I'm not attracted to any of them" and the girls come out the winner.

Same goes on in high school. Several of my dd girl (including my dd) group did not consider themselves straight. Now they are in freshman year of college. Two of them now have boyfriends. Not sure what will happen for my own dd, but tbh I don’t buy that she’s gay. Shockingly (sarcasm) this happened in lockdown when TikTok exploded.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a mix of just being a teen fad along with a rejection of what you need to be to be “successful” as an online heterosexual girl in teenage America (perfect grooming, perfect body, skimpy outfits, being open to the deviant sexual proclivities of pornified males, etc).

Yikes, that is awful but true

Anonymous wrote:It’s a mix of just being a teen fad along with a rejection of what you need to be to be “successful” as an online heterosexual girl in teenage America (perfect grooming, perfect body, skimpy outfits, being open to the deviant sexual proclivities of pornified males, etc).

+1 This sounds like my DD and friends. And certainly a portion of these kids are really attracted to same-sex, but observing from afar, a lot of it is stylistic and also affirming what they are NOT.

It’s a mix of just being a teen fad along with a rejection of what you need to be to be “successful” as an online heterosexual girl in teenage America (perfect grooming, perfect body, skimpy outfits, being open to the deviant sexual proclivities of pornified males, etc).

It has been this way for the last 6-7 years or so

Social media.

Girls yes.
Boys no.

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.

Just curious, at my child’s large (public) middle school there seem to be so many kids that are identifying as gay/bi. As in maybe the majority, or close. It seems very commonplace. Is this the case at your child’s middle school? Seeing as adults that identify LGBQ is a much smaller percentage, what is going on with the middle school crowd?