“Whispers behind our backs.
A friend of a friend of a friend.
‘Did you know?
Did you know they won’t call their son their daughter?”
Oh, no. You have a reputation?
And it’s… Accurate?
Almost like there are consequences to a decision you made.
“Because they’re transphobic.”
Were you thinking you aren’t?
“Those who have not read anything about this.”
So, no, sorry, read quite a bit about this. And you’re transphobic because you ONLY read what reinforces your transphobia.
"But they can’t say it to us.
They say it behind our backs.”
THen how do you know they say it…?
“How could they possibly defend themselves?
There is nothing they can say anyway."
Oh, but we know you’ll justify it. You always do. Insisting that you’re completely right and EVERYONE ELSE is wrong, especially the experts.
“But we love our son!!”
I doubt it. You love the idea of your son and you think your daughter took that away.
"Did you know they are cutting the breasts off of 14 year old girls?”
Did YOU now that the best and most effective treatment for being a transgendered person is transition? No, and you won’t accept that, because YOU think the treatment should return your son to you. Not sure how, but that’s what you’d accept as ‘treated.’ A restore.
“They think there is no reason except transphobia to not call our son our daughter.”
Pretty much… It’s her decision, not yours, and you can decide if you’re going to support her or fight her. And her doctor. And the other doctors. And the whole of the science.
“Nobody wants to hear that you can’t actually be born in the wrong body.”
No one shares your bigoted opinion, no.
“Nobody wants to hear how devastating it is”
To you. All about you. You and your needs.
People valuing your daughter’s needs over yours is just intolerable, isn’t it?
“Nobody wants to hear how deeply it hurts us”
Pretty much.
"Yesterday we were nice people.
Today we’re transphobic.”
When i met the girl i would end up proposing to, I knew and was related to a LOT of nice people. When they found out she was black, I found out how many of them were racists. Yes, it can be an overnight thing.
“Everyone is so sure of themselves.”
On both sides. Thing is, the actual science is only on the side you won’t acknowledge…
Because you’re transphobic.