Yeah, that might want to wait until they’re actually around puberty, a common thing is people getting understandably angry that 5 year olds are being asked about their nonexistent significant others. But the general idea about intervening to present more than one gender as a valid romantic interest is solid.

I honestly think searching the internet would be helpful here.

• how to explain lgbtq to children

I know a lot of us are on Lemmy to avoid Reddit, but their LGBTQ+ subreddits probably contain people in similar situations who got answers to their questions about how to survive an intolerant religious family and how to best approach this topic with young children. I’d say that browsing Reddit for this kind of thing really is not a big deal. Go browse Reddit for answers, I personally weigh people not being bigots over sticking to the Reddit protest. If this rankles, there’s also alternative front ends to Reddit that don’t give them traffic, so you can basically browse Reddit without breaking the protest, without giving Reddit anything. https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/LGBTQ/ https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/lgbt