Meyer’s reading made me reflect on minority stress and the stigma related towards coming out, or even hiding in the closet. The research has showed that at 3 years old children can identify their sex preferences, but with cultural imposition, their inner voice may get blocked out by the other voices around them- either telling them not to think or act a certain way(family context and gender socialization in middle childhood). Jewish norms are taught to children way before three years old, in fact, ever since zero they start teaching them the values of judaism. I grew up as part of an orthodox jewish minority group where heterosexism was predetermined for boys and girls. In the jewish orthodox world, a woman was expected to marry a man and
