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Jeremy Wilhelmi reflects on encouraging his children to accept all forms of gender and sexuality. Sometimes, this means letting them experience the world without commentary, he writes.

In "Lightyear," Commander Alisha Hawthorne is shown embracing her wife and child. This has led to the movie being banned in 14 countries. Picture courtesy of Pixar.

There’s all this buzz (pun intended) about the new movie “Lightyear.” I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve heard the outrage is because two “female” characters (albeit animated) kiss: “How dare we expose young children to this? Our children aren’t mature enough to see these kinds of things. We are corrupting our children!”

I’m a cis-male parent of two boys, ages 12 and 8. I’m definitely no expert in gender, sexuality or...

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