Some LGBTQ facts that most don't know about us.
Not all of us transition. Some of us are on blockers in our prepubescent stage to help us find a plan and path that works for our identity. While others of us are okay with our body though we identify as nonbinary.
Our population is actually a lot smaller than most people assume, given the bad media and press about us. We number less than 1% of the LGBTQ community, and that makes us less than .2% in the US population. Tiny demography here! #LGBTQ
@PaganMother
I recently witnessed a friend of mine going through a child coming out as non-binary. They did so a few months before their ninth birthday. The fact that they could start living in their truth at that age, made me happy and gave me hope. It also made me wonder: what of those who don't have two supportive Moms to cheer them on? How many young ppl lack the concepts and vocab to express their truth because of unsupportive environments?
@publickovacs I grew up in a heavily sheltered family, military child, so I didn't get to build relationships or friendships to support myself emotionally or to develop socially as well as most folks with stable families did. The only person in my family that knew I was trans from the age of 8, was my mother, my father refused to accept me as me and scared me straight back into the closet after taking away anything boyish/masculine related from me. It took me 20+ years to come out again.
@publickovacs I won't say that my case was typical, far from it, but for the 80's to the 2000's children, this was very much the concept of strict upbringing that many families faced and supported.
@PaganMother
That sounds so sad and so true