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Teachers Aren’t ‘Indoctrinating’ Kids
Kids are more accepting of their LGBTQ+ classmates and LGBTQ+ parents
My daughter is officially an adult now, even though she still seems young to her father and me. She’s twenty years old. She votes, too.
The trans issue was already filtering into her high school when she was a freshman, in about the year 2016. She and her friends and classmates were already well-versed and accepting of their queer classmates, so accepting that some of their classmates were questioning their gender wasn’t a big deal. My daughter and her friends had known since grade school that some of their classmates had two moms or two dads for parents, and that was in the late 2000s to early 2010s. No one cared. No was was hurt by it.
One of my kid’s close friends from high school is now a trans woman, and I have to tell you, being a young woman suits her well. As liberal as my daughter and most of her friends are, they have one friend if their friend-group who was raised a conservative Christian. He, and his mother, have come to love and embrace the one gay kid, and the one trans kid, in the kids’ friend group who both came out while they were all still in high school. They’re all accepting of each other, and everyone is happy and good.
