OK. I'll share. I do not have biological children. However, I have step children and step grand children as well as nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. They range in age from pre teens to teens to young adults and older. We are a family that talks about things and issues including things involving gay and transgender people,, usually initiated by the younger people.
Two of these young people, both 18 and in college were at our house on Sunday. They are very aware of these issues and have been at least since high school. They know gay and trans kids and have no problem with them. They agree with me -that we should be accepting and supportive of them. It is not a taboo subject and in fact it is just part of the social landscape.
No one indoctrinated them or pushed anything on them. They are just living life in an environment where these things are actually normal. They represent a new breed, and more evolved and accepting type of person than you people never can be. They understand that there is nothing to freak out about and that gays and trans people are no threat to anyone, and that they should have the same rights as everyone else.. For them it is just another subject- another aspect of their reality. At the same time, there is no indication that they were ever steered or "groomed" to be anything other than who they are
Lastly, I will add that their parents are moderately conservative and religious, but not controlling or extreme .These young ladies were allowed to grow and develop as they have without being steered in any particular direction in terms of their gender identity or sexual orientation and they both appear to be comfortable as heterosexual women. ( as far as I can tell)
They are who they are, not because they were shamed or brainwashed, but simply because that is who they are. Their strength is that they understand that there is not just one way of being normal and do not judge others for their differences. The day will come when people like them will prevail and there will be no one left who can understand the hysteria about the subject that is all too prevalent today