Sedgwick and Lee

Sedgwick's "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay" and Lee's "The Joy of the Castrated Boy" seemed to go along the same lines. Both pieces emphasized the idea that society should not attempt to reverse or remove the difference in sexuality in beings. The parents should be the first to stop this because they are supposed to be their children's biggest supporters and role models. When Lee describes his childhood and how he liked all the "girly" things, he doesn't seem ashamed of it at all, rather, he seemed pretty self-confident and stated his hobbies as just facts, which is what they were. I find it interesting that parents would be the first in their child's life to try to stifle the so-called "abnormality" in their children when instead they should be embracing it. Does it make them feel like failures as parents, because they couldn't produce or raise a "normal" person? These feelings of insecurities in parents is what has encouraged therapy to try to change a child back to "normal" and rid them of their "abnormal" feelings. Isn't good parenting supposed to be doing what makes your kid happy and loved for who they are? If we want to change society and make it less judgemental of others, the movement needs to start with the parents first.