Signs my daughter is gay
Inside:Is my teen daughter a lesbian? Maybe or maybe not, but here’s how to handle this sensitive teenage sexuality topic
This post was contributed by Jill Whitney, LMFT
So much about teen sexuality is different from what it was a couple decades ago.
Where once it was awkward, if not dangerous, 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 aim where being LGBTQ is caring of cool.
So don’t be surprised if your teen or even tween daughter announces at some point that she’s a woman loving woman. It’s more common than you might deliberate 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 grow out of it. Or maybe not.
How do you know?
Acceptance Needs to Be Unconditional
Unfortunately, there’s no way to inform. Some girls who experiment with same-sex partners end up happily straight. Other young women
By guest blogger, Ian Taylor.
Help, I think my minor may be gay. What should I do? Am I right? Whereas I am no way homophobic, I don&#;t know how I will react if it&#;s true&#;
It is understandable that every parent has concerns or questions regarding whether their child maybe lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT), considering the world we live and today; and especially if the parent starts to see one or two signs.
In this article, we answer some of the most troubling questions you may have if you suspect that your infant may be gay or bisexual.
Are the suspicions starting to build?
If I think that my teen might be same-sex attracted, how should I converse to them about it? They mentioned the subject several times, so I&#;m getting concerned.
Until your youngster comes and tells you that they are, or might be LGBT, you can’t know. Try not to make assumptions and let them come and tell you in their own time. Create a positive environment where your child feels able to talk to you about their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. For example, say positive things abo
As I relayed in When Your Kid Is Gay: What You Need To Know (Sterling, ), I found out that my son was gay from a note with our son's identify entwined with another boy's, surrounded by a heart. I accidentally found that note in his room when I was cleaning.
I never questioned him about the heart I found on the sly. How would I have brought it up? Guess I was wrong? After all, he had a passion on a miss in his class.
I had suspected at times that he was male lover. He only had girls to his thirteenth birthday party. He preferred gentler sports. He was always concerned about how he looked and followed fashion. Were these stereotypical thoughts from a straight mother? You bet, but it was ingrained through the culture's binary system and ideas about how males were "supposed to" behave.
As it turns out, our son didn't come out until he was 17, was on his own, and brought a partner to visit. Had I asked him if he were gay when he was 13, he probably would acquire defensively said "No!" He had to work it out and work through his denial. I'm glad I muzzled myself.
Susan Berland, the mother o
Book Excerpt: Is Your Infant Gay?
Excerpted fromWhy Is the Penis Shaped Like That? … And Other Reflections on Being Human, by Jesse Bering, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (North America), Transworld Ltd (UK), Jorge Zahara Editora Ltda (Brazil). Copyright © by Jesse Bering.
We all understand the stereotypes: an unusually light, delicate, effeminate gas in a little boy's step, an interest in dolls, makeup, princesses and dresses, and a sturdy distaste for rough participate with other boys. In little girls, there is the outwardly boyish stance, perhaps a penchant for tools, a square-jawed readiness for physical tussles with boys, and an aversion to all the perfumed, delicate trappings of femininity.
These behavioral patterns are feared, loathed and often spoken of directly as harbingers of adult homosexuality. It is only relatively recently, however, that developmental scientists have conducted controlled studies to identify the earliest and most reliable signs of adult homosexuality. In looking carefully at the childhoods of gay adults,