Jesus, that’s awful. I’m so sorry to hear about that.

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3ish years ago my one and only BF commited suicide. He drowned himself after a long campaign of harassment by his mother and sister. He had been abused by his father (who’d used his gender as a means to fuck his mind up). His both his mother and sister knew about the abuse, but refused to help him.

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Ugh.  I have a Conservative friend on Facebook who was livid about this.  Thankfully, she got called out on it, by us Liberal types as all of the Conservative media links she was sharing, only had the father’s side of the story.  Although, despite the debate that when down on her Facebook post, she did start to…

I mean “likely” isn’t accurate. But yeah, it’s definitely an issue. Forcing people into the closet wouldn’t improve things, tho

I’ll drink to that, 100%. The right has been facing demographic shifts for years, and hopefully that means that this really is the dying gasp of the Christian Right-we can hope for that kind of luck.

You left out the likelihood of her murder at age twenty-three at the hands of bigots.

It is 100% child abuse and I wish you could have been born to a more supportive and loving family. The world is a better place with you in it, and we’re all glad you survived.

“As for Georgulas, as Buzzfeed reported on Thursday, she may soon be the subject of an investigation by the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services, after the attorney general’s office, in a letter, urged the agency to “investigate possible child abuse” against Luna, “whose mother has proposed chemically…

Jesus, this is like those Black Death Vans that were going to come and round up all the old people for eldercide after Obamacare went through.

Georgulas took Luna to see a therapist, who diagnosed the child with gender dysphoria — a mismatch between the gender assigned at birth and the one they identified with. From there, the therapist laid out steps on how to make the child feel affirmed, like letting Luna paint their nails and putting them in a dress,…

It’s highly doubtful that the therapist took only that one statement and pronounced a diagnosis. It takes time over multiple interactions to get a diagnosis on an adult, so getting one on a child takes even longer.

There needs to be laws passed to prevent media from outright lying about the case. “Chemical Castration” was NEVER on the table, transition surgery was NEVER on the table, and is not even medically suggested at such a young age. 

This is gonna totally blow your mind: There is an entire field of psychology called child psychology. Children see psychologists all the time. Because children are people, and thus are susceptible to mental illness.

Younger, who claimed to have served for years in the Marines, including a stint in Iraq, had only been in the Marines for a short time while a young man; he similarly neglected to tell Georgulas that he had been discharged from the Army “due to an admission of homosexuality,” according to the court records.

This is heartbreaking. I am heartbroken for the mom in this situation who just wants to raise her child to be healthy and happy.

Two friends of mine have a 12-year-old trans son. Recently, he’s been self-harming and has attempted suicide twice. They 100% support his identity and are doing everything they can to get him counseling and make him feel safe. Watching them go through this breaks my fucking heart. I can’t imagine how much harder it…

Different issue, but this reminds me of when the right jumped all in on the Terri Schiavo case, and turned a private family matter into a chance for them to infringe on how others would live (or end) their lives.

Conservatives want trans people to conform or die, and they’ve stopped bothering to pretend that they have a preference.

Poor Luna, poor Mom and poor twin caught up in this mess.  I can’t imagine looking at some guy who immediately ran to the (right wing) press AND has a well-documented history of lying through his teeth and finding him credible in the least.

Conservative: Think of the children!