The Trans Christmas Carol

We can hope

This Christmas Eve your trans-identified child will be visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, who wanders the Earth burdened with the heavy chains of health problems, childlessness, and missing body parts, all experienced during a lifetime of vulnerability and selfishness. Marley tells your child that he/she has one chance to avoid the same fate: your child will be visited by three spirits and must listen and follow their directions or be cursed to carry these burdens in their own afterlife.

Christmas Past

The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes your child to Christmas scenes of their childhood, reminding them of a time when they were more innocent. The scenes reveal your child’s fun times at school, their relationship with their beloved sibling(s), parents, grandparents, and a Christmas gathering with their family who loved and adored them. They view a scene of your child’s rejection of the last Christmas they spent with you, complaining about “dead” names on the gifts and the opposite sex gifts they didn’t receive. They are shown isolating in their room all day and not joining the family. Finally, the spirit shows your family struggling to enjoy Christmas this year despite all the challenges and the possible absence of their trans-identified child. Your child becomes upset upon hearing a description of the person they have become and demands that the ghost remove them from the house.

The Ghost of Christmas Present

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes your child to a joyous market with happy people buying Christmas gifts and spending time with their teen-aged or young adult children. Your child and the ghost also visit a Christmas party where they see a teen-ager named Tiny Tim, who is joyful despite being seriously ill. Tim would do anything to be healthy again but does not have a choice. The spirit informs your child that Tiny Tim will die unless the course of events changes. Before disappearing, the spirit shows your child two hideous, emaciated young adults named Ignorance and Want. He tells your child to beware of them and mindlessly repeat their unhealthy choices.

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows your child a Christmas Day in the future. The silent ghost reveals scenes involving the death of a disliked individual whose funeral is attended by a local trans group only on the condition that lunch is provided. The local trans group steals your child’s possessions to sell them themselves. They show that the group cares nothing for your child and is busy going on to indoctrinate the next victim. When your child asks the spirit to show a single person who feels emotion over their death, they are shown only their parents who are heart-broken and in mourning. When your child asks to see tenderness connected with any death, the ghost shows him the family and numerous friends mourning the death of Tiny Tim. The ghost then allows your child to see a neglected grave, with a tombstone bearing your child’s fake name. Sobbing, your child pledges to change their ways.

Christmas Joy

Your child awakens on Christmas morning a changed person. They buy gifts for the whole family with their birth name on the gift cards and arrive to celebrate Christmas Day as their true selves. The following day they tell their parents they have desisted or are detransitioning and they are sorry for the pain they have caused. From then on, your child treats everyone with kindness, generosity and compassion, embodying the spirit of Christmas.