When Shubhreet Kaur’s elder daughter Karma was three, she used to play with a Lego set where Minnie Mouse was a firefighter who saves Daisy Duck. After Minnie saves Daisy, they move on to take care of a baby. “At that age she might not know what ‘husband’ and ‘wife` is. For her, they are a family. She does not know what ‘LGBTQIA+’ means but she already thinks it’s cool that two women are raising a baby together through play,” explains Kaur. 

Kaur, 36, is a mom-blogger who documents experiences about parenting and traveling with a child. Her blog — titled Raising Karma — also emphasises the importance of raising a LGBTQIA+ sensitive child and adopting equality-based parenting. According to research published in the Annual Review of Psychology: “Studies suggest that most children develop the ability to label gender groups and to use gender labels in their speech between 18 and 24 months.”