[Traci-L]

I have a six-year-old daughter who says she is ‘gay.’ She has always said she wanted to marry a girl and has never expressed an interest in boys in the ‘kissing way.’ She is very feminine and loves dolls, etc. If she is gay, I want to support her as best I can. Can I tell this early?
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Name : Traci-L, Gender : F, Age : 32, City : Culver City, State : CA, Country : United States, 

[Susan]

about sex and liking people in ‘the kissing way.’ Certainly, a lot of the gay and lesbian people I’ve known have known this as early as your daughter. Some say they’ve always known. Certainly, your approach is going to help her more, if this is so, than that of the friends whose parents packed them off to psychiatrists to get them ‘normal.’ It didn’t work, and made them ashamed.

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[Maria]

It’s great that you’re not freaking out over this. I don’t know if she is gay or not. But, I think that maybe she’s in a ‘boys are gross’ stage and simply prefers girls as friends. Having heard that gay women like women instead of men, she begins saying that she is gay. Since she prefers girls as friends, she says she wants to marry a girl. She probably just doesn’t understand the sexual implications of all this.

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