LIFE EDUCATION SERIES 1: Person With Disability

CHAPTER THREE: Gender Preferrences

It's sometimes hard to accept that society does not completely accept the norms of this world nowadays, especially those that are above the age of sixty years. I don't know but some of them, especially my own parents, cannot accept that I am queer, a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Instead, they ask me if I'm gay or straight HAHAHAHA. I don't wanna say I'm gay because their belief would directly be that I love men over women. That is not my preference because as I have said, my gender orientation is purely queer yet I love my current girl, Azeneth Vera Cruz or Kit Magsino.

Also as I have said before, I'm like this because of what they have fed me over the years HAHAHAHA and also, my environment, especially the schools I were in. Both of them had members of the LGBTQIA+ talking around and around and so I maybe influenced partly by them too.

So I don't really know whether or not, they know who I am. I have told them far too many times but they instantly brush the attempts off like it was nothing and proceeded doing what they do. Then when I tell them again, they'd just do some, "Heart-to-Heart" talks, which consists of them just yapping and I, still, feel left alone in this world.

Is it really that hard to accept your child's or children's genders? I know for younger parents, it's a lot easier, but for elder parents, is it really that hard? I'm so tired of crying every night just because they cannot accept that they have a grown up son turn himself into a proud queer on social media.

So my message goes out to the parents out there. Please don't be like my parents. Don't be too hard and harsh on your children. Do not push them to be what you want them to be and don't even try to control how they act or shut them down when they try to do new things.

Just be calmer in handling them. Talk to them more often and listen to how they feel. Listen to what they say and when things are getting emotional. Pat their back and hug them if they still feel a bit uncomfortable. Lastly, just please accept them as they are because that could mean the world to them. That could literally mean everything to these LGBTQIA+ community kids!

Just let them know how much you love them and how much you care for them, as well as how much you show that their gender has been accepted, no longer mis gendered, mistreated, misunderstood and misinterpreted. This will surely make them the happiest person alive.

Just let them live their lives. Let them have the fun they wanted and let them learn, automatically, from their experiences and the consequences to their actions. In the end, experience is still the best teacher in this world so please don't take that off from your children.

Don't show them what my parents are doing to me. Don't be like my parents. Don't make them feel unworthy, worthless and going crazy, just because they prefer to be gendered and be labeled as they/them. Don't scold them if they do the gayest things and the lesbian things.

In the end, what matters most is their happiness. Just please, be more aware! If they show signs of it earlier on their lives, adjust and be there for them. That is all that I could humbly ask from all of you reading this.

Let my parents be a lesson to you on how you treat your beloved children. Let my parents be your inspiration to do things otherwise and make a stand in loving these people. We need your love! We need your attention! We need your protection!

PERIOD!