Kids talk. Teachers teach. Laws might just make them both very very sick.

Kids, teachers and so many others are going to seek help to find a safe place to just be - and a counselor's office will quite possibly be the next best stop (in some states anyway).  But should it be?

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Imagine a kid, 4 years old, who has two dad's ... or a kid whose aunts are married.  At school this 4 or 5 year old kid does what kids do ... starts talking about an everyday dinner event with Dad or with "aunty" at school.   And the hush that is legally mandated overtakes the 5 year old as this little kid discusses a funny moment at home last night.   Here in this moment,  a sanctioned legal policy enacts secrecy, ostracization, bullying and potentially creates a criminal if the teacher acts in any way to address the very natural and normal conversation of the child.

I have written about this topic in many different ways and a number of times, in a number of places for a number of years .... on the talkifuwant website .... in the book Psychobabblejabble, on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook (personal and professional)... and many many years ago I was interviewed in Florida regarding reparative therapy and treating children ....I've posted things in a podcast too ... all with various angles and takes looking at what  I guess is controversial.

LGBT is not a moral issue, it's not a legal issue ... it's not a political issue ... it's not a prohibitive one ...  it's not something to be protective of or about ... it's not taught, it's not contagious, it's not a fad or a phase ... it's a human thing.... it is a scientific reality - and nearly all components of LGBT (however you attempt to classify or judge) are biologically grounded - like real and hard sciences kinds of stuff.

So I'll say this ... again ... But. The. Children.

When that child just talks .... she and her entire cohort, teachers included will be faced with an actual > created < crisis.  And when the dust settles (weeks or months or even years later) allot of harmed people will seek mental health care - because the stress alone will lead them to need it.  And, to get treated ... a diagnosis must first be added to the insurance billing system (a whole other podcast) to effect care.  Because a kid just talks.

Missouri, Florida and DC are all mentioned in this article - Montana, Kentucky and others...a poll is mentioned where in one example 51% of the public support this legal criminalization... the split is palpable. 

The damage and harm and the societal and cultural trauma inflicted upon the children and the adults as these traumas will no doubt occur is a hidden iatrogenic affect of laws that prohibit talking and teaching. Trauma created by laws and courtrooms... impacting the places of learning at the most impressionable times.  

The mental health business is about to grow again ....because of laws that ban things like talking, teaching, being open,  honest and respectful....directed to one people ... lgbt.  Laws contradicting science, academia ... creating criminal teachers and soon to be secret keeping 4 year olds.

And some laws are now regulating if and how counselors might talk to or with lgbt identified youth and their parents.

Read this ... please. Think about this one little kid having a simple conversation at school.  Think about this one teacher in that moment.  Then consider the counselor's office next. 

My heart aches a bit ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teachers-florida-parental-rights-in-education-dont-say-gay-bill/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17