Nah, I was disowned for being trans, and that’s basically what parents who are bigoted against their kids are like.

Estranged parents as a whole are like that actually

Could also be that he’s only not being homophobic because he’s so focused on the transphobia.

Also, like, what would he do there? Politely respect his daughter and her bride using the feminine trappings in their wedding despite disagreeing with them about who they are? Or would he just cause a scene and make there be painful memories from their wedding?

I know it’s the latter, his daughter knows it’s the latter, and if he has any self honesty whatsoever he knows it’s the latter too.

Oh that’s really funny. Congrats to his daughter and her bride on their upcoming nuptials and for keeping the asshole parents out.

At a certain point dude, you gotta take the L and love your kid for who she is even if you don’t like or understand it. Or don’t, and accept that you’re the villain in the life of someone who you were supposed to love unconditionally.

Great now I’m picturing my father blaming my transition on me being too attracted to women

We also often need to be shown “this group isn’t trying to hurt you, most are just trying to get by and they have full internal experiences just like you.” Growing up people like me were typically depicted in media as predators or dead sex workers and in addition to the shame and fear it taught me, it also resulted in some people having to learn to see me as just a person and member of their community with no ill will towards them.

Weird, mine is having to live through a modern reenactment of the end Permian extinction event

Yeah, nobody makes vehicles in the US or Canada that aren’t made in part in the US, Canada, and Mexico. That’s just the post NAFTA manufacturing environment. Labor heavy and high pollution components are made in Mexico while skilled labor and assembled parts are made in the Great Lakes region crossing borders as is convenient.

Oh yeah if you can’t do that with your friends you need friends you can

My social circle changed a bit, but I was 20 and still love and cherish my pre transition friends. Even the one who’s also an engineer lol

For context, they’re nerdy men who are progressive and in touch with their emotions. One is way more masculine than the others, but we don’t judge his love of sports lol

It sounds like a kei car so already not street lega

Oh hey, a car that’s basically what I wanted. A reasonably sized and priced electric hatchback.

Not in the market for a new car though

Congrats!

Yeah I want lightning to do it

See that narrative does strike a chord. My life is externally very difficult because I’m trans. But I didn’t get an easy and happy option, my choices were to face all that and do my best to build a happy life anyways or to live in misery tortured by the threat of it.

I feel that hard. It didn’t come out of nowhere, it came out of me exhausting every alternative I grasped for despite knowing full well that it would always end here. And of course the signs were all easy to brush off like me hating being photographed, I saw how people who violated gender expectations were treated. And especially I saw how trans women were treated in society. Why the fuck would I have been open about having these thoughts until I was damn sure? I spent a lot of my teen years trying to stay safe and wantable while also trying to push those boundaries and see what I could get away with

Started at 20, got hormones in under a year after coming out. Been over 10 years, and have had surgery. My regrets are all about not getting to start sooner, that I should have gotten more modern approaches to hrt (reduced spiro and increased estrogen with injections sooner), and how I should’ve learned to be more feminine earlier.

I’m alive now, truly and fully. I was just barely surviving before

Yeah, the lesbians sent over a nice femme with cleavage and I was hooked.

The gas tax is far below what’s needed for the roads

What can I say, the lesbians had a really good recruitment pitch at the queer meetup.