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- Jul 12, 2019
I ain’t got a dog in this but three gay kids whose parents panicked when their kid either came out or displayed effeminate/butch behavior:
Jazz Jennings
Gavin Grimm
Andraya Yearwood
Jazz, no explanation needed. Grimm is from an evangelical household. She’s your typical obese butch dyke who already looked 45 at 15. She’s famous for her on-going court case against Virginia public schools for not letting her in the little boy’s room. Yearwood is the first of the two troon boy runners in Connecticut competing in the girl’s category. Yearwood is black. When he came out to his parents at around age 13-14, they sent him to a shrink who convinced him he was actually a girl in a male body.
Tacking on to this with some other sources:
Kai Shappley (video)
-> quote from parent: "I remember even thinking before Kai was three that I think this kid might be gay. And I thought that that could not happen and that would not happen." Here's an article about Kai, including the charming quote: "So Christians are not gay, okay, that's the mindset that I had."
"Sid"
-> quote from article: "Sid’s transition began in eighth grade, when he came out as a lesbian to his friends and family. He began facing instances of cyber bullying on the site Ask.fm, where peers sent him hateful messages. " She then magically "realized" that she was a "straight man" the whole time, what a coincidence.
Marsha Aizumi's daughter (unnamed in article)
-> quote from article: "I couldn’t say the word “lesbian”; in fact, it made me cringe. Publicly I walked around feeling dishonest, carrying a secret I wasn’t ready to share, and privately I cried as I searched to learn what I had done wrong to cause my child to be gay. I was lost, I was alone, I had no idea how to support my child, and so I quietly criticized myself for my failure as a mother; I was ashamed." Naturally, when her daughter "came out" again as a "straight man", she was able to support her and now marches in Pride and the whole nine yards to support her "son".
There are also examples like Chaz Bono, whose mom Cher hated her for being a lesbian but now supports her for being a "straight man". There are loads of examples of this, these are just a few of the most obvious that I could find in a quick search. And these are just the ones I could find where the parent(s) openly admit to being homophobes, it doesn't count the ones where the parents see gender non-conformity and immediately jump to "trans them before they can grow up to be gay" but don't admit to it out loud.