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Rainbow Parenting Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies

Lindz Amer

An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not be able to address every p...

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The Matt Walsh Show

The episode mentioned the book as the author's own guide, quoting a paragraph that urged parents to create a genderaffirming environment from infancy and criticized the advice as harmful.

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That book is called rainbow parenting your guide to raising queer kids and their allies. So here's a paragraph from the first chapter of that book... I encourage you to think of infancy as a practice...

— Episode: Ep. 1226 - 'Paw Patrol' Indoctrinates Pr...

Episode: Ep. 1226 - 'Paw Patrol' Indoctrinates Pre-Schooler...

The episode mentioned the book as the author's own guide, quoting a paragraph that urged parents to create a genderaffirming environment from infancy and criticized the advice as harmful.

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That book is called rainbow parenting your guide to raising queer kids and their allies. So here's a paragraph from the first chapter of that book... I encourage you to think of infancy as a practice round. You can create a queer and genderaffirming environment in their nursery babble to them about consent while you're changing their diaper.

Already, but even if you leave that aside, that's the worst parenting advice I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, you know infancy It's a practice round. It's just this is the rough draft. Don't worry about it.

She wrote it in her book and it was published. It goes from there: you can introduce toddlers to big abstract concepts like queerness and difference and develop healthy skills like body Kindness and consent.

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