▲ 195 ▼ Date a trans girl (hexbear.net) submitted 2 years ago by ultraviolet@hexbear.net to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ignorant CIS OOTL guy here: does this mean that trans women don't get along with their parents? If so, I'm mad sorry :( permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 2 years ago (1 child) It means that there are a lot of trans people who get disowned by unsupportive parents permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) OK sorry permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that's an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can't take that shit anymore. I feel it's a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i'm in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who've been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 2 years ago (1 child) It means that there are a lot of trans people who get disowned by unsupportive parents permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) OK sorry permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that's an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can't take that shit anymore. I feel it's a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i'm in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who've been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) OK sorry permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that's an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can't take that shit anymore. I feel it's a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i'm in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who've been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that's an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can't take that shit anymore. I feel it's a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i'm in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who've been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US. permalink fedilink source parent