@DancingQueen85
Out of interest; what do people whose DC have said they are gay do about same sex sleepovers?
From the start, I had all sleepovers in the front room and had a policy that guests upstairs meant bedroom doors had to be open (the latter more came about because my children share bedrooms and younger siblings getting shut in a room with a sticking door or siblings stuck out of said room became an issue, but it seemed handy to continue it into older years). I've yet to impose any sort of sex-based rules on sleepovers, but they've become a lot less common as my children have got older.
Always amazes me how accepted it is (on MN) for parents to encourage their children to embark on sexual relationships.
I don't encourage dating with my children, my DD1's discussion about her sexuality wasn't related to any sort of dating. It was just talking about what she was thinking about herself. I do encourage open conversations on that when my children want to do so.
I also don't assume crushes or a child 'dating' is automatically sexual. In fact, I actually really dislike the social shift that affection or crushes with children has to be linked to anything sexual, that adult emotions are put on small shoulders that pushes that sort of expectation.
I had crushes in kindergarten. When I was 6 I put a huge pile of valentines in a classmate's desk. I had a 'boyfriend' around the same age as the OP's child, and beyond sitting together at lunch & on field trips and going to a few of his church events, the entire thing was the social status of dating someone and feeling nice about being picked by someone else. None of those were sexual in any way and I really hate the feeling that my or my children's emotions, even when using sexuality terms they're taught to use, would be as heavily sexualized as I see on MN.