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15 year old daughter has a crush on a girl
So, I normally don't snoop when I go into my kids bedrooms. For some reason when I walked into my 15 year old daughters bedroom and saw a journal sitting there I opened it and read it. I realize I ...
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My daughter just turned 13 and confides in me she wants to be a boy [duplicate]
Last week my daughter turned 13.
The following day my mom left with my daughter to go babysit my 12 year old niece while her parents are out of town. I didn't see my daughter again until Saturday but ...
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My 15-year-old son is gay. How do I express my feelings about this?
Recently, my 15-year-old son has been acting very strange around the house, which isn't like him at all. Whenever we try to talk to him all we get back is "yes I'm fine" or "Go away", which really ...
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Is it okay to encourage a transgender teen to consider genderqueer and transfeminine as alternatives to transgender?
My oldest child (17) told us that he has been struggling with finding his "presentation" and he "thinks" the answer is that she's a woman. Oldest is searching for the right female name and wants to ...
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My 13 year old daughter says she wants to be a boy. This is out of character for her. Is this a phase?
My daughter, 13, has said she wants to be a boy. A little background: we moved to a new state a year and a half ago. In her new school, she felt isolated among her peers until she met a girl in art, ...
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How do you support/cope with your 15yr old daughter wanting to become a boy?
I'm going to give a quick history on this to support my question. When my daughter was 12, her & I moved to my hometown, where we already had friends and family that we are very close with. After ...
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I just learned my 15 year old daughter has come out to her friends - should I say anything to her...OR to my wife?
This past weekend I learned that my 15-year-old recently came out to two of her friends. I learned this in a couple of ways:
The two of us just traveled alone for a weekend, and she let me use her ...
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How do I approach my 13-year-old daughter's confusion regarding her sexuality?
My 13-year-old daughter is fascinated and obsessed with another girl. She is not able to do her normal routine things. She has not even talked to the girl yet the girl occupies her full mental space. ...
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My 13 year old is sexting need advice
Today I went through my daughters Kik account (a messaging service) just to make sure she wasn’t getting “creepers.” From what I have seen in the past, she is very behaved on there (i.e., she refuses ...
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14 yr old lesbian/bi daughter wanting to have her girlfriend over. What to do?
My 14 year old daughter recently broke up with a boy she was dating for 7 months because she fell in love with a girl. I totally support her as I had a similar experience when I was in my 30's. My ...
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How should a parent react when their child comes out of the closet to them?
Several of my good friends, including my best friend, are gay/lesbian/queer. All of them have told me that coming out was one of the most emotional and difficult things they've ever had to do. Their ...
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