Increasingly, Christian pastors, youth pastors, and parents are fielding questions and declarations from young people examining their own gender or sexual orientation. One in five Gen Z Americans now identifies as LGBT, almost double the number of millennials (just over one in 10) and some six times the number of Gen X Americans (about one in 30).Ī surprising number of them-40% of Gen Z and millennials-also identify as religious. Grace was experiencing what is often called “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” in which friendship groups begin to experience similar gender questions at the same time. And then I ended up deciding I was a boy.” Over the course of a few months, I decided I was going to be agender. I got invited to groups where all they wanted to talk about was the transgender stuff. “Instead,” said Grace, who is now 17, “they decided to reeducate me. She hadn’t seen this coming-in fact, a few months before, Grace had shared on social media her belief that God created people male and female.īack then, Eva was sure that statement was going to earn Grace-who attended a progressive public school-some social problems. She felt like she’d been punched in the gut. “My pronouns are they/them.”Įva couldn’t breathe. (Their names have been changed.) “Mom and Dad, I need to tell you I’m not actually a girl,” she read. Eva was at a church luncheon when she got an email from her 12-year-old daughter, Grace.
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