They don’t need to know that. I’m not saying it because I’m trying to deny that the existence of LGBTQ people or trans people they’re not your kids. they don’t need to know anything except what they need to know as kids. And the are smart but naive and enormously curious and bold. If they see a trans person or an LGBT couple or whatever out and about they can ask their parents, they have the Internet all of them have cell phones. They can ask other kids and other adults if they’re really curious and don’t accept their parents answer .hell they can look it up most kids now use the internet- i taught myself at 8, then taught my mom. ..if they feel on the inside like they might be like that person, the resources are out there for them to find out and they are not hidden in the least- its everywhere. unless something like that is the case ,they don’t need to know, why do people feel like it’s their place or even important to the child? The child is aware of something that may not affect them whatsoever? It’s not hiding it from them, but kids are influential creatures. They are sponges with infinite imaginations and are constantly finding themselves .they see a spaceman, They want to be a spaceman. They see us dude in a dress(cross dresser, not a trans woman). They want a dress and they want to parade around with feathers like that guy. Which is fine. Hell i used to pretend i was Chun-Li from street fighter and do lunge kicks at my buddy playing e-honda on the trampoline. I did that, naturally, without even being introduced all this stuff, and let them be kids. when ppL start trying to introduce concepts, like ideology identity and all that stuff to kids, then of course they likely will start thinking on that stuff early even before puberty and they don’t need to. It may not be with a malicious intent, but you just programed someone else’s child giving them information that wasn’t your place to give them. They do it on their own in their own timeframe trying to accelerate it in someone else’s child is just wrong. Adults the bad ones and there are a lot of bad ones are aware of how impressionable children are. The world isn’t majorally full of good, honorable and honest people as I’m sure you have observed, it’s quite the opposite. That’s why we tear up when we see a video on YouTube of a kind hearted person stopping someone from hurting themselves or others, by just being human... because it’s actually a rare thing to witness so it touches us. then I see teachers doing videos _saying that they’re talking to their first grade kids about this and they’re not sharing the information or even that they had a discussion with the parents ,they’re hiding it, and that makes me scowl and raise my eyebrow. There are more reasons that are suspect or Not noble in doing that, than good reasons. Namely, because it was the teacher who brought all this crap up in the first place the kids were supposed to be learning their times tables… let’s say it’s not grooming or recruiting at that point then it’s trying to get validation from innocent minds that aren’t going to judge and criticize harshly. That’s not the place of a teacher. That’s not their job. That’s what therapy and group meetings are for. It doesn’t come down to. I don’t want my kid to be that when it comes down to is I don’t want my kid to be that when it wasn’t 100% their own idea. Maybe with some parents it is the first one but far less than it is the other day. I’m sorry for how long as it is I don’t have time to proofread it. My phone is dying I don’t wanna lose it.