To be uncomfortable that my heterosexual friend is volunteering for lgbt kids charity?

[travellingbird]

My friend has to be the most conscientious person. She is exceptionally engaged with social issues and currently works in a lefty cause (climate change). She told me she was about to start with a work-approved charity for LGBT young people in schools. The aim is to go into schools and address homophobia and gender stereotypes etc. She is hetero and cis. I'm gay, and she has been one of my closest friends even before I came out at 15. She has witnessed and supported me through my battles with homophobic parents. Our mutual best friend is also gay and identifies as agender.
She is well aware of her privilege (in a good way) and has aired her concerns about not being quite right for it, yet is proceeding.

So, am I unreasonable to be uncomfortable with her taking this role? Should I just be happy she is er, "helping us" and being a wonderful ally?

The OP has a sense that the friend is capitalising on her position as the OP's confidante ( Not sure how you spell it! blush ) and isn't happy about it.

capitalising? By sharing her experience? The OPs friend is acting as a "role model" to teens, as someone who has an LGBT friend and who has supported the OP.

If that is considered "capitalising" on her life experiences, then isn't it equally capitalising of the OP to go into school and act as a role model to LGBT teens?

why wouldn't the OP want her friend to share their experience, encouraging others to provide the same type of friendship and support?

I don't know - but the OP isn't happy about it or she wouldn't be on here posting!

A friend of mine pointed out the other day that our children are going to be the first generation where it'll be acceptable to have same sex marriages and same sex couples to have children. They're going to grow up in a world where these things happen.

In the same way that I almost any believe that being gay was illegal only a few years before I was born, our children will grow up finding it hard to believe that only a few years ago only men and women could be married.

There is so much happening in our lifetime to encourage equality and acceptance of other people for every reason.

I am grateful for the gay people that I have encountered and the stories that they have shared with me; I am grateful for my gay friend who has children through donor IVF who has shared her story with me; I am grateful for my TGirl friend who never tires of my questions and openly discussed her journey from her Trans journey 4 years ago. I am grateful for these wonderful people not just because they've answered my ignorant questions and talked me through the difficulties that they face/have faced but because it is with this information that I am able to teach my son about LBGT. It's with this information that I'm able to tell my misinformed friends that they are wrong and to help dispel the harmful myths that past generations have created.

I am straight and I am Cis but if I am privileged, it's because of the insight that I have had into my friends transition and the privilege of watching her change into such a beautiful strong woman.