- Well, my world changed forever about two years ago when my smart, beautiful, self-confident, extraordinary girl crashed and burned in the next room and was “saved” by a transgender identity. Yes, my girl, with no history of issues with being a girl, suddenly decided that her whole life had been a lie, a secret, and that she “had always known but was too afraid to say anything”. It’s called coming out of the closet. He probably knew he was trans long before revealing it to anyone.
We went to gender therapists, met with specialists, consulted with cult experts. […] I attributed this to the recent passage of a bill in my state that forbade discussion of gender identity with minors. Probably because cult experts deal with indoctrination, not gender identity. And “forbidding discussion of gender identity with minors”? What? I am not up to date enough with US state-to-state politics to know if this is true.
- My husband really wanted to go Full Hungarian (a phrase that came out of a support group for parents like us where one mother, a Hungarian woman, didn’t give into anything and actively badgered her kid until she desisted). Based on all the people we had met with, that was unlikely to work and would very likely strain our relationship with her. The natural consequence of harassing someone is that that someone will want you out of their life. That’s just how harassment works.
- Things kept ramping up and I became overwhelmed with managing my spouse, my younger child and pretending everything was normal to our friends, despite the obvious and sudden change in our daughter's appearance. This line tells me that you are less concerned about your own flesh and blood son and more about your image in the community.
- I am not trying to be dramatic or play the victim card. You’re a narcissist who’s making your child’s transition about yourself. i.e. you are being dramatic. We all know you’re being dramatic. You get cheered on by your fellow narcissists in the PITT echo chamber because you are being dramatic.