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I hope I live long enough to see the Cass model and other LGBTQ+ identity development models disappear. They won’t be needed because our societal expectations will have shifted. Parents, teachers, friends, and faith leaders will read stories to children about all kinds of people and families, will use language that doesn’t assume sexual orientation or gender, and will have no expectations about who a person is or who they will be. There will be no fear, shame, or despair for anyone as they figure out who they are and whom they are attracted to. LGBTQ+ centers will close down or become museums, and books like this one will no longer be needed. Students will read about conversion therapy (therapy aimed at turning gay people straight) and people like CeCe McDonald and Matthew Shepard in their history books and say, “Can you believe stuff like that used to happen back then?” (If you aren’t familiar with CeCe McDonald or Matthew Shepard, there’s some ally homework for you.) In this future world, it will be as easy to come out as LGBTQ+ as it was for me to come out as a straight cisgender person. The Cass model process will disappear not because we have fixed our LGBTQ+ people but because we have fixed our society.