Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

To be fair to that piece of shit, he probably didn’t even know. 13 years old don’t really talk to their parents about anything.

Best of luck to you.

I second the good luck!

Best of luck to you!

Good luck!

As someone with two fertilized eggs being planted into me tomorrow, starting out with two fertilized eggs is no guarantee of twins or any baby at all.

FWIW, a friend of mine was given a terrible name by her parents and decided to change it when she was nineteen. Her mom was the only one that could never get used to it, since she’s the one that named her daughter in the first place. I expect it’s a bigger deal for someone in transition to be referred to by their new…

I’m still struggling with my youngest brother not being my sister anymore, and we’d seen it coming for years before he actually asked for male pronouns.

Jesus, way to be compassionate. She’s clearly trying. Are you really going to fault an elderly woman for taking some time to adjust to her child’s gender transition?

She is her MOTHER, cut her some fucking slack! She gave her the name “Bruce”, probably chose it very carefully and lovingly - this is hard for a parent, especially an older parent, and to be honest about this being hard is not being an evil meanie, it is being human. And she is trying, isn’t she?

It pisses me off that people expect his own mother to just be like “Okay hey Caitlyn!!”. This is someone she has raised. Of course she is going to have a tough time calling her son by her new name. Jesus people, it may look like the world is super cool with this transition but in reality it takes family and loved ones…

I mean I don’t know she did name her when Bruce when she was born, I think she’s allowed a little wiggle room to get it right.

Come on, Rob: this is a huge psychological change for her at an age when a lot of people have trouble adjusting to a new coffee maker, much less the gender identity of their child. The point is, she is trying, when she could have written him out of her life.

yea, literally no real issue with her mom’s comments. It’s hard for her, because she’s an old lady who’s called a person she loves one thing for decades! It’s not going to be an overnight thing! It’s not like Caitlyn’s mom is just a random person on the internet.

If she’s made it this far, it probably won’t be that long until she gets used to calling her Caitlyn. Looking at a beautiful woman and calling her “Bruce” is going to start feeling strange at some point anyway.

don’t act like you can’t force yourself to change. You might just not want to.

At least she still loves her and she is going to try. I’m not all about giving old people passes, but you know, you get used to stuff and it can be difficult. It’s probably a lot for her mother to get used to but she seems supportive, and happy that her child is happy and comfortable.

“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”

Sweden is starting to look like a very nice place to live.*