'The Gender Buffet: LGBTQ Parents Heteronormativity'

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Love is Love Society has always had a hard time adjusting to gender socialization. The world is so judgmental, so when change happens we have a hard time liking it. Gender socialization normally deals with the LGBTQ community. Gender socialization is when one know self as person and as preferred gender. Often, one does not know the difference between sex and gender. That’s where the conflict comes in at. Sex is what one were born with and gender is what one classify their self as. Gender socialization has several effects on society and heterosexual parents. Kate Henley Averett is the author of the article “The Gender Buffet: LGBTQ Parents Heteronormativity”. In this article, Averett agree that gender socialization should be accept in all …show more content…

When it comes to gender socialization parents do not prepare children as they should. They do not let them know much about the LGBTQ community. Which is wrong. Children should know there is more than one kind of love. Wheatear it is with hetero or homo. With heterosexual parents they sometimes limit children minds. That is the difference between heterosexual and homosexual parents. Homosexual do not let their children to one kind of love. They explain to their children that love is express in several different ways. Although homosexual explore their kids mind to different kind of love, that does not make heterosexual parents bad. Often heterosexual do not really talk about gender socialization with their children because they do not think they will have to enter counter it. When they do it is always hard to explain bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people to them. It is best to say that if you are a heterosexual parent start talking to one’s children about the LGBTQ …show more content…

Even if one is a heterosexual parent it does not mean they cannot care about the LGBTQ community. Caring about the LGBTQ is showing one children that one can love without judging. If someone is different from one, it is all right. Do not have to judge all the time. Showing children that one can have different people in the society, without looking down on them. For homosexual parent’s gender socialization plays a major role. They cannot walk down the street without people whispering, little kids staring, or people being rude to them. For heterosexual parents it will just allow the children to not judge anyone, no matter who they are. Love everyone the same just as if they were like

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