Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Lindsay Amer is the creator of "Queer Kid Stuff," an educational video series that breaks down complex ideas around gender and sexuality through songs and metaphors. By giving kids and their families a vocabulary to express themselves, Amer is helping to create more empathetic adults -- and spreading a message of radical acceptance in a world where it's sometimes dangerous to just be yourself. "I want kids to grow up and into themselves with pride for who they are and who they can be," Amer says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features digital creator Lindsay Amor recorded live at TED Residency 2019.
0:09.3	All right. Let's get this kicked off.
0:14.6	It's okay to be gay.
0:17.8	We are different in many ways.
0:21.6	Doesn't matter if you're a boy, girl, or somewhere in between.
0:25.6	We all are part of one big family.
0:30.6	Gay means happy.
0:34.6	Queer kid stuff You are enough
0:40.2	Here at queer kids stuff
0:42.1	Opening a performance
0:52.1	Like it's okay to be gay for a Room Full of Adults, is one thing, but it's entirely different for a room full of kindergartners.
1:01.1	What you just heard is the theme song for my web series, Queer Kids Stuff, where I make LGBTQ plus and social justice videos for all ages.
1:09.8	And when I say all ages, I mean literal babies
1:13.5	to your great-great-grandma. Now I know what you're thinking. Whoa, they're talking about
1:20.9	gay stuff with kids. But talking to kids about gay stuff is actually crucial. The American Academy of Pediatrics has found
1:29.7	that children have a solid understanding of their gender identity by the age of four. This is when
1:36.4	children are developing their sense of self. They're observing the world around them,
1:40.9	absorbing that information, and internalizing it. Now, most parents want their children
1:46.1	to become kind, empathetic, self-confident adults, and exposure to diversity is an important
1:53.0	part of that social and emotional development. And gender nonconforming kids and trans
1:59.8	kids and kids with trans and non-binary and queer parents
2:04.1	are everywhere.
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