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I learned when I was pretty young too, one of my friends had lesbian parents and i was really close friends with a trans boy (this was all ages 5-7), and from 4th grade on I was really interested in books about trans and nonbinary kids. when I was 11 i had my first girl crush and now here i am.

I've always been annoyed at people representing others in books not because they know it's right, but because they're getting criticism from fans. And with straight white cisgender women writing kid's books, just make your characters diverse from the beginning. From the beginning. Don't be JK Rowling and say Dumbledore was gay and Hermione was black 20 years later, it should've been in the books FROM THE START. (JKR's a jerk anyway what with all the transphobic tweets) Don't be a jerk.