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[elisi]

I have probably mentioned Penelope Trunk before - she writes about career advice (and has done several start-ups) and homeschooling (not from a religious/Evanglical perspective, she's Jewish). The advice itself is not at all applicable to me or my life, and I don't always agree with her, but she writes extremely well and engagingly and generally with brutal honestly. But these two posts I really wanted to share:

My 12-year-old son just told me he’s gay. How can I help him?

Dear Princeton University, I love you

(The second one ties in with the first, despite the title.)

Comments

[greensword]

The visit to The Attic freed him, and I hadn’t even known he needed freeing.

This is beautiful. I want to reach through the internet and hug both her and her son.

[elisi]

IKR?

(And - selfishly - I am very pleased because I have put that exact thing in the book I am writing.)

[conuly]

Those comments, though.

[elisi]

She has... interesting followers.

[conuly]

That's one way of putting it. I actually stopped to reply to the one who said that by posting this entry, she obviously put her son at risk of predators. Like, who actually believes this is how child molesters work!?

[elisi]

Yeah, they don't hold back and aren't scared to voice their opinions. Nevermind how misguided.

[kass]

Oh, wow, that first post. Thank you.

[elisi]

My pleasure. <3

[poniesandphotos.livejournal.com]

I do some volunteering with queer youth groups. Just being accepted seems to make all the difference. I wish there would have been something like that when I was a kid.

[elisi]

I remember reading somewhere that trans kids who are allowed to use their preferred name/pronouns are 90% less likely to commit suicide. (Don't quote me on that, I'd have to hunt down the article, but it was a ridiculously high percentage.)

At least the world is changing for the better in *some* ways...