Why though? Why wait until they are teens? Kids have eyes and ears; they see and hear what’s going on around them. They see mommy and daddy hold hands, kiss and hug. They understand when two people are in love. And they see lots of media with couples in them.

Then this scene comes along, they see it and ask "Are these girls in love?", then the parent says "Yes", then the kid again asks "Can two girls be in love too?" and mommy or daddy say "Sure" and... that's it.

There doesn't need to be drama attached, a child will ask questions and an adult answers them. It is always the adult in this situation that creates the issues here, not the child. The child is willing to learn and accept. But when a parent is like "No this is wrong" or screams at the TV or franticly acts like something’s wrong, that's then the kid gets the impression that something is amiss.

And even if the household is accepting, the problems arise when the child that already had its questions answered is confronted with other kids who have been drilled to see two girls in love as something bad, or other adults who march through the streets shunning gay people.

Waiting until they are teens is saying that this kind of stuff is somehow more complicated or challenging for children to see and understand when it really isn't. They already know a man and a woman that hold hands like each other; they are ready to expand that knowledge to the point that two men or two women can do the same.

Wish this forum had a like button, dang.

If it's okay to show Calvin and Haley or Jen and Wes hold hands or discuss their feelings, it's okay for Izzy to hold this girls hand. Full stop.

Frankly I think it's absurd PR is so against couples in the series to share a kiss.

To any of the naysayers...READ THIS ARTICLE FROM 2020 AND BE PREPARED TO HAVE YOUR MINDS BLOWN!!!

http://www.morphinlegacy.com/2020/09...r-rangers.html

No offense but the queer-coded character section of the article feels like that the writer had spent way too much time reading Power Rangers slash fanfiction to me or at the very least, the Ho Yay section on the franchise at TVTropes.org.

I find it stupid that people get angry over having LGBTQ stuff in a kids show or movie, but having straight people being in love is totally okay.

Hmm.

The closing thoughts are good though. It's good if gay people see themselves in these characters, but they still need real, unambiguous representation

Indeed and I am glad we do get this with Izzy especially since from what little I saw of her via a small handful of clips of the current season that she is an actual character (and a very likable one at that) with a very clear and distinct personality that just happens to be LGBTQ.

She ended up being a favourite before this, right? At least from what I heard she was a lot of peoples' favourite of the team