If you have “a school psychologist friend” who says those things it’s time for that person to go back to school for some CEUs. They’re operating on some very flawed logic. …your friend, that is. Kids are made to feel like they don’t fit in by people who tell them they aren’t normal. “Heterosexual folks” “announce” their gender or sexuality every day, but no one notices because it’s considered “normal.” I’m heterosexual and I’m the one flying flags who has bumper stickers on my car. Why? My young and locally employed LGBTQ friends and neighbors are afraid to. They appreciate being acknowledged by someone who has nothing to fear. So I do it. The language being used is about denying a reality in which those fine LGBTQ people are normal, that they exist as normal just like their hetero friends. I have friends and former colleagues who are LGBTQ people who happen to be veterans, friends who are veterans who happen to be LGBTQ. Their existence, they can tell you, makes the comparison you make irrelevant at best, ridiculous in general, and deceitful at worst. And they have quit caring about how disgusted they are with people who venerate veterans and thank them for their service while questioning the rainbow flag on their motorcycle jacket when they ride their Harley.
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