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Marie's avatar

Read it in tears, hearing my loud sobs as I read these profound words. You wrote this about me. I also have parental dysphoria.

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Hippiesq's avatar

So very true. Although I am lucky that my other child doesn't buy into any of this, all of the rest is exactly my experience. Thank you for putting this into words. Many times, I seriously want to go outside and start screaming very loud - this is insane!!! Nobody is born it the wrong body!!! And nobody should be encouraging young people to take synthetic hormones, be castrated, have a mastectomy, or otherwise mutilate a healthy body in the name of a non-existent "gender identity!" And I agree that parental instinct doesn't lie. Walking the fine line of not alienating our delusional children as society encourages the delusions is exhausting - and this parental dysphoria can be debilitating. The one thing that seems to help is speaking out and hearing from other parents like you.

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