Homosexual characters should be on Children's TV shows

Okay so this has nothing to do with the debate, but I'm curious. How did you get that font? I saw someone else with a font like that and I don't see any options to change your font. I am legitimately curious. Rebuttals: "children do not hit puberty until the age of 10-16. (girls being 10-14, boys being 12-16) Since the gap is so late in their life, I find it pointless to incorporate homosexual couples" But it's not. In middle childhood at the ages of 6-8 is when children are quickly devoloping their social sills and cognitive skills and are quickly learning about the world[1]. This is when they start thinking about the future. They see an astronaut on television and think it's cool so they want to be an astronaut. The see a ballerina and wish to be one. They are already forming role models and they are not just in real life. As my first citation from round one stated, television is the most influential force on children's development. Even if they don't realize their gay until they're a teenager they already don't have a stigma against themselves or others because of how normal it has become. "To have a child both a male and a female are required, and throwing curveballs like two men at children will simply confuse them." That has been disproven many times[2][3]. Children aren't as dull as you think. They can understand the concept just like any other. "Shouldn"t this be the big picture " getting these kids help where it really matters?" Except they wouldn't need help if they hadn't been bullied in the first place. The way to help the future generations is just to treat homosexuality as anything else, normal. Even if one or two people have a problem with that everyone else in the class would tell them not to be rude. That would be what actually helps these kids. "Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, and Peter Thiel. Shouldn"t that be what these kids look up to?" Most five year olds don't even know they're gay. Most five year olds wouldn't be watching an Anderson Copper movie. I'm 15 and I don't even know who Peter Thiel is. "I"d also like to look briefly at the numbers cited about social and more rarely physical abuse on homosexuals. Isn"t that a good thing given the right circumstances? " No, no. no. There are no circumstances that make any person except an occasional few stronger for getting beat up or treated like trash. New Arguments: Representation matters. Here's a quote from Whoopi Goldberg ""Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, "Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there"s a black lady on television and she ain"t no maid!" I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be." Even if personally you aren't affected by it, so many gay youths are greatly influences by gay characters and couples on television[4]. Currently these shows are targeted to an older audience i.e. Supergirl, The 100, Shadowhunters. If this same representations could be implemented in children shows (Girl Meets World, Lazy Town) these children who don't even know their sexuality yet will benefit greatly in the subconscious in this child's mind that what they are is not a bad think. My opponent seems to using his own personal experiences as facts. I would greatly appreciate it if he could bring up some sources or polls to support his claims. Citation [1]https://www.cdc.gov... [2] [3] [4]http://andreashettle.tumblr.com...