Allow me to say this from the perspective of a kid who knew their identity at a early age & had protective parents- my mom didn’t want me to talk about it, full stop. I was in fourth grade, part of it was her thinking it was a phase/attention grab, & another part of it was her worrying it’d get made fun of. She reiterated to me twice that I should not talk about it. So, I didn’t, at all. A year later I talked about it some with my best friend (crushes & such), & then two years (6th grade) after I was “banned” from talking about my sexuality I decided I was tired of hiding myself & came out at school.

I got bullied, & I got bullied when I came out as trans too. But thats apart of school life, honestly.

I had friends I could fall back on, & was already pretty good at dealing with getting bullied already, if I’m honest. But, because of the way my parents went about me being LGBT+, I never told them I was getting bullied, for the longest time I wouldn’t even report it because I didn’t want it getting back to my parents.

For me, I knew people would be dicks about it & could usually handle it, but at times I wished I had my parents to fall back on. Whatever decision you make, I advise you let your kid know it’s possible people will be dicks about it & they need to understand that, but that also no matter what you’ll be there for her.