Episode 48: LGBTQIA+ issues and teenagers - Part 2

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

LGBTQ issues are a huge part of our teenagers' lives. If your teenagers aren't dealing with these issues themselves, they know or will know other young people who are. In this episode we answer further questions parents have including how should parents talk to their teenagers about LGBTQ issues and whether or not parents should take their transgender or gay teenager to therapy. It turns out that these answers depend quite a lot on the foundation of our own identity as parents! Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.4	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:10.1	As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:14.7	Hey, everyone, and welcome back.
0:16.7	This week, we will continue part two of LGBTQIA plus and teenagers.
0:23.5	Dr. Ken, what about the people who may be cross-dress?
0:30.6	And so they're dressing up as the opposite sex, but they're not having sexual behaviors with the same sex.
0:39.3	Ah, good. Good that you even know to ask that because one of the quickest ways to look
0:44.3	like you don't know what you're talking about in front of teenagers is, for example, if you're,
0:50.7	if you tell your parent that my friend has come out as transgender, then you ask,
0:58.4	does that mean that he likes boys? Or the other way around that he's gay and you go, oh,
1:04.3	I guess he'll start wearing dresses. You're an idiot. You don't know what you're talking about.
1:08.8	Because the two groups, you're mixing them up.
1:11.0	So someone who is gay does not wear opposite sex clothing and someone who is transgender
1:18.4	does not necessarily have sexual interest in the opposite sex. Caitlin Jenner, for example,
1:26.2	is a transgender woman who is in a relationship with a woman. That makes her a lesbian.
1:34.3	Okay, she's a biological man who still is interested in women, always has. He used to be a straight man, but if he comes out as transgender woman, then he has to be a straight man but if he comes out as transgender woman
1:45.2	then he has to be seen as lesbian does and and those are two separate things
1:50.8	if if Caitlin Jenner were dating a man she would be a straight or
1:57.2	heterosexual transgender woman.
2:02.6	I know. Very complicated.
2:03.6	You can get confused, yes.
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