the sexuality and gender identities of LGBTQIA+ youths, causing them emotional distress.
As humans, we feel more comfortable putting ourselves into categories. We find comfort in belonging to the same category, therefore emphasizing that everyone should fall into neat little boxes. One such box is being heterosexual and cisgendered, as opposed to being homosexual or bisexual, and transgendered or non-gender conforming. In Kate Henley Averett’s journal article on LGBTQ parenting, The Gender Buffet