They'd probably prefer spending time with a parent who loves them over having to listen to an unmotivated teacher who should've retired 20 years ago drone at them.

[–] ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

parent who loves them

As a queer person, haha, you're funny

[–] xxxSexMan69xxx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tolerant parents exist. In a public school, you are all but guaranteed to deal with bigots.

[–] ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather not give more power to intolerant ones. The more I talk to other queer people and their relationships with parents, the more I become an unironical family abolitionist

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Trans mom here. We do exist and can break the cycle.
We homeschooled and some of the first GNC examples I saw were teens and adult kids of other homeschooling parents.

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