I realized I haven’t actually pictured Mia being the boy-hearted one!

When she said she’s a girl-hearted girl, I felt relieved. And that’s not good!

It just shows that though I love my gay friends to pieces and I embrace everything that makes them gay, I am ashamedly biased. I want Mia to be the girl that she is.

I can imagine my male friends shaking their heads with the thought of their little boys not being boys too.

I even hear them joke around their kids saying, “Wag kang babakla bakla, sasapatusin kita!”

And these are not homophobic men, I tell you. They have gay friends too.

So I guess defining homosexuality to our kiddos is just half of the equation. The other half is ahem… OUR. Full. Acceptance.

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We have to set our minds as early as now (not easy, I know) that regardless of the pink dressed dolls we buy for our little princesses and the megatrons and super truck toys we wrap for our little warriors, it is not far from possible that they’ll one day be part of the LGBTQ community.

We need to adapt in today’s modern society.. because if we don’t, we will be miserable. Or if not us, our kids.

If you do a dictionary check, sexuality is defined as a feeling, which makes it something we can’t dictate. The same way we can’t tell someone who to love and marry.

We can direct and guide (you know, gender/family roles) but how they turn out is out of our command.

You may agree or disagree with me on that one but if you open your minds and take a good look around, you will see that sexuality is not determined by our reproductive functions or our birth assignments.

So challenging as it may seem, I am trying to overcome my own biases and embody what Kate Winslet once said.

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It’s your turn. What are your thoughts on this? Have you pictured your children as gay? Do you have gay family members? How did you explain it to your kids? How did they take it? Leave me a comment below!

Gay friends, if you finished this post, thank you! Let me know if you feel I’m wrong on something or if you have suggestions on how to describe the rainbow community to little children.

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