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Anonymous wrote:My issue with threads like these, which are ubiquitous on this board, is that their purpose is to elicit “don’t worry, it’s a fad” responses. Y’all say you’re not homophobes, yet I haven’t seen a single post celebrating the new openness or even lending it any credibility. And when you use words like “majority” what’s implicit is that you don’t believe that what many of the kids are saying are true.

So, yea, threats like this are inherently homophobic. Sorry to break it to you.

If the new openness allows LGBTQ kids to feel safe and comfortable on their skin, that’s fantastic. But I can’t have an intellectually honest conversation about this without acknowledging the performative aspect to some of it. From the group texts I’ve seen among my DD’s friends once they all started to hit puberty—sorry, but I just can’t give it 100% credence.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

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Anonymous wrote:My issue with threads like these, which are ubiquitous on this board, is that their purpose is to elicit “don’t worry, it’s a fad” responses. Y’all say you’re not homophobes, yet I haven’t seen a single post celebrating the new openness or even lending it any credibility. And when you use words like “majority” what’s implicit is that you don’t believe that what many of the kids are saying are true.

So, yea, threats like this are inherently homophobic. Sorry to break it to you.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

You need a dcum break. Seriously. You are way too triggered by a benign question.

+1000

She wins the rapid fire sock puppet award too

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

You need a dcum break. Seriously. You are way too triggered by a benign question.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I see. You’re an expert on middle school expressions of sexually nationally based well as DC. Good to know.

I think there’s merit to this. We live in another state. In each of my kids’ middle school classes of 50 kids each, there is one kid who is gay. It’s accepted but not trendy to be gay.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

There are other liberal enclaves outside of DC (e.g., California).

The phenomenon is observable everywhere 12 year old girls have access to TikTok. So, everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

There are other liberal enclaves outside of DC (e.g., California).

The phenomenon is observable everywhere 12 year old girls have access to TikTok. So, everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

There are other liberal enclaves outside of DC (e.g., California).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I see. You’re an expert on middle school expressions of sexually nationally based well as DC. Good to know.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

You need a dcum break. Seriously. You are way too triggered by a benign question.

For real. Go away. We are all sharing observations of what is going on as we know in the groups of our children’s friends

And for what purpose?

DP. Would you prefer we don’t say gay?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.

I don’t live in the DCUM region and I have observed the same where I live.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

What city is this? Public or private school?

OP said public. And this is how it is everywhere.

No, it's a regional phenomenon.