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According to Twitter, LGBT Kids Have Been Lied to ... A Lot

Raffy Ermac

Digital Director, Out.com

Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel.

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Raffy Ermac

byraffy

July 21 2015 2:19 PM EST

November 08 2024 5:52 AM EST

Twitter (in usual fashion) lots its chill today when the hashtag #TheLiesWeTellKids started trending, where users looked back at all of the hilarious and off-the-wall things their parents probs lied to them about when they were young.

Although most of it was just people complaining and reminisicing about how their parents fronted about the existence of Santa or the tooth fairy, some of the gems in the tag included the amusing — and all too real — lies that many LGBT people were told as children.

Like the lies we hear that, despite the many, many struggles LGBT people go through, all people are "equal."

\u201c#TheLiesWeTellKids "everyone's born equal" call me when institutionalized misogyny/racism is gone tho\u201d
— frank ocean vuong (@frank ocean vuong) 1437487470

— (@)

Or the tons of lies we hear about gender roles and the gender binary.

#TheLiesWeTellKids person's sex is determined by their genitals
— ℛℴѕℯ (@doritos_chan) July 21, 2015

\u201c#TheLiesWeTellKids \n\n*buys boys cars and footballs and buys girls dolls and dress-up because kids should know gender roles*\u201d
— peanut (@peanut) 1437494202

#TheLiesWeTellKids [enforcement of gender roles]
— kylie (@80021170FFFF)July 21, 2015

None
— Grundy (@Grundy) 1437495280

Kids get lied to all the time about the "wrongness" of being LGBT.

#TheLiesWeTellKids "gay is wrong"
— Yazeed (@DudeInDistress)July 21, 2015

\u201c#TheLiesWeTellKids That they are going to hell if they are gay, or have sex. #BlackTwitter\u201d
— Atheist Black Chic (@Atheist Black Chic) 1437492586

And how "it's just a phase."

— (@)

Some LGBT kids got told by others what their sexuality was. As if other people knew better.

\u201c#TheLiesWeTellKids gay straight and bi are the only sexual orientations. but you're straight, for sure\u201d
— dr \u0127anini (@dr \u0127anini) 1437493654

And some were probably even told the most heartbreaking lie ever...