The Top 5 Questions from Parents of LGBTQ+ Children

Number one.

Susan, did I do something wrong?

Okay.

No.

Now, we're talking about...

By the way, these are, these are questions from parents.

Let's go back to restate that.

[laughs]

That wasn't from...

The parents will say, "Did I do something wrong?"

Right.

What...

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the answer's no, and there are two, two pieces to this.

First of all, to, to say, "Did I do something wrong?" assumes that something went wrong.

That's right.

That, you know, there's something wrong with your child being LGBTQ.

Okay, that's the first thing.

That's not wrong.

That's how they are, and that's the way it is, and there's nothing wrong.

But I know what you mean by the question.

"Did I cause this?" is basically what you're saying.

"Did I mess them up?" [laughs] Is, as one parent said, um, I quoted him in Mom, I'm Gay, said, "I realized, I thought I had messed up so badly and created this thing in my child so bad that even God couldn't fix it."

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