My teenage daughter told me she is bisexual

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So much about teen sexuality is unlike from what it was a couple decades ago.

Where once it was awkward, if not perilous, to be anything other than unbent, we now discuss openly about a spectrum of orientations and genders. Sexual diversity has broken out of the closet—to the show where being LGBTQ is kind of cool.

So don’t be surprised if your teen or even tween daughter announces at some aim that she’s a lesbian. It’s more common than you might assess these days.

But you may wonder whether your teen daughter is a female homosexual for real, or whether it’s just a phase. Maybe she’s just experimenting; maybe she’ll develop out of it. Or maybe not.

How do you know?

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Unfortunately, there’s no way to say. Some girls who experiment with same-sex partners cease up happily direct. Other young women

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How Can I Support My Year-Old Who Says She&#;s Bisexual?

By Shafia Zaloom

January 13,

Dear Your Teen,

Recently, my year-old daughter became interested in all things LGBTQ. She came out to me a few weeks ago as bisexual. She is not sexually active in any way but feels, in her words, that she mostly crushes on girls.

I support my daughter percent and always will. Who she loves makes no difference to me.

I told her that sexuality can be very fluid, and that she should not change into too attached to who or what she feels she is. Later when she is more sure of her identity, and she wants to have it front and center or to acquire involved in a movement, by all means do so. But right now, I think it&#;s in her benefit to accept her time.

Can you give me any advice, especially on my suggestion that there is no rush to identify as anything just yet?

EXPERT | Shafia Zaloom

Dear Supportive Dad,

It is a testament to your relationship with your daughter that she feels secure to share how she’s feeling about her sexual identity. I encourage all parents to convey t

Daughter says she’s bisexual

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My daughter (turning 14 next month) said that she thinks that shes not vertical and that she thinks she is bisexual. I know how sexuality is forced to kids really young and like everyone is just assuming oh if you think a girl is pretty then you must not be straight. I told her it’s a trend and you will most likely grow out of it. She said but I’ve had male crushes when I was a kid but I also had female crushes. Like this is ridiculous you can acknowledge a girl is attractive without it creature a “crush” and she says she enjoys the thought of kissing a girl just as much as kissing a lad and she gets a tingly feeling while thinking about it. I say her it’s too adolescent to think about that you’re still too adolescent to know if you’re homosexual or not. And she’s been thinking she likes girls since