( Ellexoh )
Grandparents. And losing your grandchild to trans-creep
I call it trans-creep because it crept up on me, as the grandmother of a boy who decided he wanted to be a girl. Not as a young child but (the first I knew of it) in his mid-teens. This boy was my world, but after moving to & living in another country, as well as having (it seemed to me) unlimited access to social media, meant he was exposed to an online world he was left to navigate alone. I will admit....this is my view entirely because not once did anybody in either side of the boy's family sit down with me and have an open conversation, or ask me how I felt about what was happening.

Today I have no contact with my grandson, an estranged r'ship with his mother (my daughter), strained r'ships with my other children because of my gender critical stance (all of us live in NZ) and no contact at all with the paternal family because they live overseas. I did contact the other grandmother in the US and she is sympathetic but said that although she "had a very big problem with that at first. (my grandson's father) was the one who helped me through it." So they all appear to be captured by it. And I don't even know how often there is contact with the family overseas because nobody talks to me

I can count the number of grandparents with a trans-grandchild on one hand. And I only know about them in an online capacity.

Breathe....phew! :)

( Hex )
Every time I read similar stories, it reminds me of the people I lost to addiction and (almost) to Qanon. You can love them and try to persuade them with logic and love, but the addiction is often stronger. I would hope that he is not addicted to porn in his young age but if he has unlimited access online then who knows.

Trans is also addictive because of the sense of community, and if he is ostracized or doesn't have strong community in real life, then they will make their own community online. Of course the community is built on empty words, as they find out after they trans and all their old problems remain.

I have no advice, I just click on these topics because I have young nieces and a nephew and I worry about them.

( samsdat )
I am so sorry this ideology is ripping your family apart. I hope your grandson and his parents come to their senses soon.