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Why Is Everything “Lesbian” Always Dying?

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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Gay and Trans Kids - What's So Powerful About You?

I think people genuinely feel this way, but like how parents often feel when their kids come out as trans especially where they're like, I just feel like the kid I knew is dead. And then they just, I know this from talking to therapists who, of course, to see trans youth in a supportive therapy session also, you know, both have to have parental permission who's paying the bill. So often end up realizing like the kid is fine. The kid is being mistreated by the parent and now the parent needs to be in therapy too. We actually are confronted with a more complicated situation than was the like presumption in the 1970s.

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