Woman has little boy read 'The GayBCs'

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A video of a woman having a little boy read from "The GayBCs" — a children's book that uses letters of the alphabet to introduce readers as young as 4 years old to LGBTQ words — has been making quite a stir on social media.

What are the details?
The video begins with the little boy reading aloud the word for letter A: "ally." Then the woman with him is heard introducing the rest of the letters, beginning with "B is for" — and the tyke answers "bi."

While some of the words don't possess immediate LGBTQ connotations — H is for "hope" and M is for "mountain," for instance — others like "bi" hit right at the heart of it. And a little boy with his cute little-boy voice reads all of them:

C is for "coming out."
D is for "drag."
G is for "gay."
I is for "intersex."
L is for "lesbian."
N is for "non-binary."
O is for "orientation."
Q is for "queer."
T is for "trans."

As you might expect, some folks wondered why a kid so young was being introduced to such words:

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