With all due respect, it sounds like you're gunning on being a helicopter parent, which is your choice but it probably wont go over well. Your kid will try what

With all due respect, it sounds like you're gunning on being a helicopter parent, which is your choice but it probably wont go over well. Your kid will try what they want to try and the most important question for you should be whether they're safe and happy. My son's coming up on 16 now and he had a short period of gender-confusion where he questioned his identity, but he came and talked to us about it and spent a couple of weeks experimenting with his gender expression. And I honestly couldn't care less where his gender-confusion came from, the fact that he knew he could share that with us, could confide in us, was one of the most beautiful moments I've experienced and something that reminds me how blessed I am to have him as a son. If he came home from school one day and said he's got a boyfriend but literally only because it's trendy, am I supposed to start thrashing him or something? No, we'd have a conversation which would mostly involve me asking him whether he's safe and happy. If yes, then it's his business not mine. Our duty as his parents is to safeguard his best interests, not dictate and micromanage his entire life and thoughts.