And? What is your concern here? If the child decides she’s uncomfortable with transition she’ll still have the knowledge of love and support from friends and family she would have had with any other decision. I doubt any parent would be disappointed that their child was not actually trans.

Fortunately, your comment is currently the first one visible; let’s hope it stays that way.

Glad to help! I just tend to know how this conversation goes, and I like to put the info out before we get people in here complaining about overliberal parents performing back-alley surgery on their kids for ally cookies, or something similarly ridiculous.

No snark, thanks for a detailed explanation of this.

Okay folks so I *know* it’s gonna come up and I’ll just try to get ahead of it here:

I used to work occasionally with his mom and she is stunning and super nice. She is a dietitian so I had a whole conversation with her about how my son poops after drinking milk and she was helping me figure out if it was a milk allergy or lactose intolerance. Then I found out later who her son is. Wasted an…

Because if she was a single digit dress size, there’d be no “anyway.”

A male feminist walks into a bar

Required reading:

I think I’ve figured out the code: If you give a guy a boner, you’re “curvy.” If you don’t, you’re “fat.”

I love you anyway.

You have a point. His behavior and his “business card,” are just another way for a guy to tell random young women,. “I want to fuck you, and there’s nothing you can do about that.” It’s just another version of catcalling.

“I can show you my bank account. I don’t have any assets. I don’t have money, just enough to live. I don’t have money for a sugar baby.”

I feel like we need more nuanced and real representations of gay people now. The look, all gay men are campy thing worked back in the early 2000s when there wasn’t much representation in media or public life but now society has moved on a bit (still messed up though) and a lot of viewers can handle real, imperfect…

That is the wonderful Toni Collette, not just some lady. ;)

me.

If it doesn’t come with a spider who can read and write, I’m not interested.

I freaking LOVE Charlotte’s Web. I’ve read it at least 50 times. As a book/story it’s practically perfect in my opinion. There’s a really great audio book version ready by White, also.

Yep. I’m a DV advocate. Strangulation is one of the key indicators of risk for homicide on Domestic Violence Lethality Assessments that law enforcement use with victims/survivors.

“...choking girls who refused to engage in sex with him until they complied” sounds like rape to me.