Affiliation:
1. Baylor University, USA
Abstract
Schools in the United States have long supported cisgender heterosexuality as the only healthy moral option for adult life. LGBTQIA+ adults, even some cis-het allies, are weathering the terrifying hostility and increasingly facing the experience of being doxxed for supporting LGBTQIA+ youth. Some are even losing their jobs. LGBTQIA+ professional educators face discrimination, marginalization, and silencing, especially for supporting gender-diverse youth. Students need models of healthy LGBTQIA+ adult life and healthy gender-diverse adults. They need to see cisgender heterosexual adults warmly including their gender-diverse colleagues, to model the expectations of modern healthy workplace relationships. Happy, healthy LGBTQIA+ adults are an antidote to LGBTQIA+ young people's despair. By seeing people like themselves living happy, well-integrated adult lives in their communities, LGBTQIA+ youth clearly understand that adulthood is possible.
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