My white child is not uncomfortable with learning about racial injustice or history because he's not hearing about most of it for the first time in school. He has the same empathy, sadness, and some of the anger at injustice everyone should have when they learn these things.

We also never had to explain to him that gay people or trans people exist because he observes the world for himself and sees them in it.

It's telling lies to children that harms them