Posted on 05/14/2023 10:03:28 AM PDT by Morgana
Dear Jane,
I am the proud mom of four kids. Three boys, one girl.
I love all of my children equally, but after having two boys, I was over the moon to have a girl and I’ve always loved the time that we’ve been able to spend together as momma and daughter.
But this past week, my daughter – who is 17 – told me and my husband that she is transgender. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. I didn’t know what to say. How to react. I just sat there in silence as she told us that she’s always felt out of sorts with herself. That she never really felt natural or comfortable. And that after many years of doubt, she’s now confident in the fact that she was born very much in the wrong gender and body.
I just don’t know what to do. She’s always been a bit of a tomboy, I suppose, but she’s always enjoyed doing girly things with me, like shopping and manicures and Real Housewives binges. I guess boys can do those things too, but I just never imagined that deep down while we were spending all that time together, she secretly thought she was meant to be a boy?
I know that, as a supportive parent, my first instinct should be to help her and guide her through this. But honestly I just don’t know if I can ever get my head around the idea that my daughter wants to be my son? She started talking about hormone therapies and surgeries and name changes, and I just shut down.
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Tell her she can’t do anything until she’s 18. But it is your personal advice that she decides to wait until she’s 25 when her frontal lobe is fully developed.
Probably continue to pray for them but disown/shun them until if/when they stop the nonsense.
I would suggest that she has been brainwashed into believing rubbish. I would offer her detransitioning videos, many of which are powerful. No chance I would ever offer her even one word of support by joining her in her bizarre fantasy.
Can she take a punch in the face? Support a family financially? Kill the mouse in the bathtub? Those are some of the true measures of being a man.
Sounds like she grew up around brothers, so used to that norm—except for the girly-girl expectations that her mother put on her.
Used to be girls could grow up liking and participating in activities with their brothers without it leading to the idea that they must have been “born in the wrong body”!
This is what used to be known as common sense.
How familiar are you with young American men these days?!?
If it were me, I’d be thankful it wasn’t the other transition... i.e., male to female. I have an ex-neighbor, one of whose sons went that route in his 40s. I don’t think the result is pretty, although he/she/it seems to be having the time of “their” life.
What I find interesting is before the Marxist domestic enemies in the media and in education started pushing this perversion on children, the percentage of the population that was transgender was something like .03 %. Now they are saying it’s 5% which is what, a 166% increase? So how does that happen unless these kids are being coerced into it? How many future serial killers are they creating today, kids when they grow up wont be able to deal with the fact that they mutilated their genitals?
You will always be my daughter and I will always love you..
I will not..and can not pretend you are not my daughter.
“I don’t know if I can EVER accept her as my son”
It’s simple. You don’t have to because she isn’t. The very fact that you are the type to even debate this is the reason why your child turned out the way she did.
“Can she take a punch in the face? Support a family financially? Kill the mouse in the bathtub? Those are some of the true measures of being a man.”
Excellent points! you forgot killing the spider!
Get them mental heath care. Find out who is feeding them this BS.
Kids her age often do strange things. I would counsel patience, and gentle questioning. Quick and drastic action is warranted when someone is in physical danger. There is no physical danger here. No threat of self-harm, or of harming others, etc.
Such sick freaks in society today. They belong in mental institutions. Lock em up and throw away the key. Sick stuff.
I’d say “No you’re not”. “You never will be.”
Well said.
So would I!
I’d settle for burning them at the stake!
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