I wanted on my son's impressions of the drag queen. What if my son tells me that he doesn't like the drag queen because

Hello, thank you for this question.

It wasn't so long ago that this would have been an issue. Not to get political, but this lean towards gender and sexuality being fluid has not been easy for a lot of parents and children.

The Child and Youth Family Services Act on Ontario, which governs the operation of the Children's Aid Societies and Child Protection Court operations, now specifically includes provisions protecting children's rights to gender identity.

In decades past this certainly would have been evidence on the custody issue, but not anymore. The only way you can use this is if the child is vocal about being upset and disturbed by it all and now wants to live with you. Even then, any social worker or teacher will say that the child needs some counselling to help "correct" this antisocial attitude of the child.

So this is a question for the child's counsellor or threrapist: specifically, for this child is it better for the child's mental health to be removed from that environment, regardless of the politics of the child's reasons for wanting it? And even if you get the answer you want, that might not be the end of the debate.

I've been involved in such situations before. Not a drag queen specifically, but when the custodial parent announces that they are now bisexual or homosexual. The child is usually ok with that, but it's sometimes very hard for the child to accept the new partner. And when the other parent comments, that parent is accused of trying to alienate the child against the custodial parent. So if you make this an issue, be prepared for your ex to say that you're putting your own prejudices onto the child to express for you. Which means that you have to make sure that someone else raises this issue and that your child's opinions on the subject are clearly his own.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for the ratings, I appreciate that you're receptive to information that you might not like or agree with.

Ulysses