Continued
“If you only knew…
…that my son has become a completely different person, with glimpses of his former carefree self but with the façade of a badly drawn caricature now permeating his every word, step, mannerism, and that he has changed so drastically you no longer see the boy who was growing into a man.
If you only knew how it feels when people like you say, “if you loved your child, you would accept this into your heart, do what is asked of you and you will embrace the new daughter you have now, because oh, by the way, that’s still your child…”
But you don’t know. You don’t understand and you never will. You can watch from afar and approve and affirm and agree and enable, because anguish is not a part of the role that you have taken on.
All you’ve had to do is learn a new name and use the pronouns that naturally and objectively go with that name even as they don’t go with the person assuming them, and to you, it’s as easy as changing your socks.
If you only knew….
…that you know nothing at all.”