Oh, yeah, this so freaking hard to explain.
Me, to my 9 and 12 year old boys: Your cousin Alicia is marrying her girlfriend, Alice.
My boys: Okay.
Me, when another cousin came out: Hey kids, go clean up your rooms. Josh and his new boyfriend, Jeremy are coming over.
Kids: But I don’t WANT to clean my room!
Me, when their bisexual cousin John proposed to his girlfriend: Hey kids, John and Jill are getting married.
Kids: Okay.
Kids: Mom, why doesn’t Sarah date?
Me: Because she doesn’t want to.
I’ll admit, the conversation about their friend’s dad becoming a woman was a more complex conversation, because it was a great opportunity to talk about gender and biology as separate things, but it ended with:
Hey kids, Katie’s dad, Carl, is now a woman, and she’s called “Charlotte.”
Kids: “Cool.”
It’s not that hard, people.