@cassolotl & because we as a society (often wrongly, but with noble intentions) don't consider children sexual, and because we consider queerness inherently sexual in a way we don't with straightness, the idea of a child being queer is SUPER TABOO, because it's ~sexualising children~. This idea is so ingrained in our culture that even I have struggled with it and I've been out for a decade! It's wrong, but tbh I do think it's understandable, bc it's so unspoken and internalised