“Six months in the past, my 9-year-old daughter got here out and advised me she likes women! It was laborious for her as a result of she wasn’t positive how I might reply. She cried as she advised me, and it broke my coronary heart, however I used to be so blissful to be her supply of consolation in that second, to validate her, to carry her, hug her, and love her. I do know lots of people, kids, teenagers or adults, nonetheless don’t get the acceptance and respect they deserve in these second and ceaselessly, so I needed to ensure she understood that she has me, and a military of people that shall be there for her, and love her as a result of she’s her, not due to who she likes. She lives with me, her stepdad, and youthful sister full time, and all of us settle for it, however she steadily goes to her dad’s a couple of weekends out of the month…”
“…She’s struggling there as a result of they haven’t accepted it but. They inform her she’s too younger to know, that she’ll develop up and out of it, and that she shouldn’t fear about it and simply be a child. I discover it laborious to know why they’re pushing these narratives on her. Even when they’re appropriate, for no matter purpose, and possibly sooner or later she realizes she’s bisexual, or pansexual, and even straight, does it actually matter? Why can’t her emotions and feelings be validated now, slightly than pushed apart? Sure, she’s younger and he or she has her entire life to determine it out, I’m conscious it’s not a linear course of and there’s nothing black and white about it, however I consider and belief her now, as a result of that’s what issues probably the most.”