When your daughter tells you shes gay
How Can I Support My Year-Old Who Says She&#;s Bisexual?
By Shafia Zaloom
January 13,
Dear Your Teen,
Recently, my year-old daughter became interested in all things LGBTQ. She came out to me a few weeks ago as bisexual. She is not sexually active in any way but feels, in her words, that she mostly crushes on girls.
I support my daughter percent and always will. Who she loves makes no difference to me.
I told her that sexuality can be very fluid, and that she should not become too attached to who or what she feels she is. Later when she is more sure of her identity, and she wants to acquire it front and center or to get committed in a movement, by all means do so. But right now, I think it&#;s in her benefit to take her time.
Can you give me any advice, especially on my suggestion that there is no rush to identify as anything just yet?
EXPERT | Shafia Zaloom
Dear Supportive Dad,
It is a testament to your connection with your daughter that she feels safe to share how she’s feeling about her sexual self. I encourage all parents to communicate t
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So much about teen sexuality is different from what it was a couple decades ago.
Where once it was awkward, if not risky, to be anything other than straight, we now talk openly about a spectrum of orientations and genders. Sexual diversity has broken out of the closet—to the point where being LGBTQ is gentle of cool.
So don’t be surprised if your teen or even tween daughter announces at some aim that she’s a womxn loving womxn. It’s more common than you might think these days.
But you may wonder whether your teen daughter is a lesbian for real, or whether it’s just a phase. Maybe she’s just experimenting; maybe she’ll develop out of it. Or maybe not.
How do you know?
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Unfortunately, there’s no way to tell. Some girls who experiment with same-sex partners terminate up happily straight. Other young women
5 Powerful Things You Can Do If Your Child Tells You, "I'm Gay."
You may not acquire been expecting to hear the words "I'm gay" from your child. Not only did you never envision it, but your religious beliefs and standards also do not align with gay relationships. So, what do you accomplish now? How perform you respond to your child telling you they're gay?
As a parent, you may have had the inclination that your child may be gay. As a result, the news may simply confirm your suspicions, and the conversation may be manageable. On the opposite, you may touch angry or shocked. Likewise, you may struggle with the idea and hold a natural tendency to shut down the conversation or put it off as merely a phase they're going through. In actual world, regardless of how you feel, the way you respond in the first five minutes could set the tone for your infant for years to come.
In this article, we'll discuss the critical moments after your child comes to you and says, "I'm gay." With the aid of Dr. Devon Mills is a licensed therapist in Atlanta, GA, we'll highlight five po
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Another key piece of information. My daughter is an athlete and looked up and idolized a teen that graduated last year and got a full ride to a D1 school.. She came out her Senior year as being a lesbian.. They endure close friends thru social media..
We aren&#;t a super religious family.. my girls go to youth group at the local Church, but it&#;s because the love it and want to, I&#;ve never forced them to travel to Church. I don&#;t really have a strong feeling one way or the other on the issue concerning friends