“ She has spent half of her life being one person, and half being another."
Soooooooooo, half living a lie, half living his truth.
And you prefer the Lie.
" My anxiety, bordering on panic, became a deep depression.”
It’s kind of amazing to me, as a parent, how very few fucks i give for your distress. You’re literally creating your own Hell.
“I get to be in pain, too, and my pain matters.”
Okay. Now imagine that she went out and married a black man, and you mope around ‘in pain’ at ‘losing her’ in such a way that hurts you deeply?
Would the people around you give a fuck about your pain if it was racist?
What if you were this upset that she became a Mormon, or a Catholic? Maybe married into a family and converted for HIS family’s concerns?
And there’s you, tearing your clothes like she died. How much of thiat bullshit would your friends tolerate?
"I have no idea what parts of her future she's taken away by this decision, but I wonder, and it makes me so desperately sad.”
Yeah, your pain doesn’t matter.
"having my reality turned upside down,”
Your child grew and had to leave you behind to do so. Tough.
“my language policed,”
Yeah, like my grandmother,no longer able to refer to a certain demographic as ‘darkies’ when i married one.
“my parental agency robbed,”
Oh, fuck all the way out on a short pier and chum the waters. Your son is growing into HIS agency. You can grow with him or stay stuck in make-believe.
“and watching an entire culture, particularly the college-indoctrinated waters that I somewhat swim in, cheer the whole thing on”
Your son is finding himself. That’s a yay.
“as if my destruction”
Which you’re creating and inflicting on yourself.
"and that of my beloved daughter constituted cause for celebration.”
Yay for your Son!
“I didn't really believe change would happen. One month has changed me.”
No, it hasn’t, you’re just more outspoken like the rest of the Klan.
"I point out that it's he, not the Democratic Party, who is trying to protect young people from medical experimentation and long-term harm.”
It hasn’t been ‘experimentation’ for about 60 years.
And the regret rate for transitioning is less then 1%.
knee surgeons would KILL for a regret rate that low.
"I point out that this sinister medical regime only exists because of the patronage and protection of the Democrats.”
So, just keep flapping those GOP talking points, right or wrong.
"Yet I voted for one reason: to protect my daughter and thousands of other young people from this dark period in the history of medicine.”
You voted to inflict your choice upon him. You selfish, ignorant, Stone-aged, luddite, bitch.