My Greatest Challenge(s) Poll

A note that queer, trans, LGBA+, and SGL people may find the list below difficult to read.

My greatest challenge(s) in being 100% comfortable celebrating queer and trans young people is/are (select all that apply)…

Personal characteristics: My faith

Personal characteristics: My culture

Personal characteristics: The language I speak

Personal characteristics: My age/generation

Personal characteristics: My gender

Personal characteristics: My political outlook

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: It's a choice.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Young people are labeling themselves as queer or trans because it’s a trend or to get attention.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Teens who identify this way just have another way to rebel.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Kids are too young to know this about themselves.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: It’s just a phase.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people never conform to how our/my culture says men and women should be.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Asexuality and aromanticism don’t exist.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Transgender people are a threat to cisgender people, especially to cisgender women or girls.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Everyone who’s queer or trans has HIV — and having HIV is a sign of sexual promiscuity.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: All of the queer and trans people I’ve known have been somehow unacceptable or offensive to me.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Queer and trans youth or adults will make other young people queer or trans.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Young people who are autistic can’t also be queer or trans.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Being queer or trans is a mental illness.

Stereotypes/beliefs about queer/trans communities: Being queer or trans is a problem that needs to be fixed.

A desire to protect kids: I’m scared that doctors are changing the bodies of trans young people in a way that can’t be reversed.

A desire to protect kids: I don’t want young people to experience discrimination. So I want them to stay in the closet for their own safety.

A desire to protect kids: I worry that young people are being pressured into identifying as queer or trans.

I don’t have what I need: I don’t have a supportive therapist.

I don’t have what I need: Therapy is only for people who are mentally ill.

I don’t have what I need: I worry how my family/ friends/ coworkers/ peers would react if they knew I supported queer and trans young people.

I don’t have what I need: I react negatively to pressure to be accepting.

I don’t have what I need: I just can’t wrap my head around “they/them” or other pronoun sets.

I don’t have any challenges celebrating queer or trans tweens or teens. I just want to see the survey results!

If you’ve been able to place yourself into any of the categories here, R2T2 can help you work through some of these misgivings and prejudices. Start with words directly from queer and trans young people, who have so much to teach you about their lives, experiences, and identities.