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Sweet Caroline's avatar

Thank you for reposting. This one stopped me in my tracks. It is me. All of it. Except Xanax, but truly I struggled to function. I think Sasha and Stella and PITT were my self medication. I was obsessed morning noon and night. I still am. I came I to this a year after this author and still, here we are. Parents suffering in nearly identical ways. This writing captures our pain so well.

One of the worst parts of all of this he’ll to me is that with cigarettes or a devastating event like cancer or other illness - even drug addiction, at least society supports you and wraps their arms around you in your suffering and grief. With gender ideology, we are judged as horrible parents and unsupported. People want to stay away from us rather than rally around us and support us and our families and our children.

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EyesOpen's avatar

The toll on parents is usually ignored. Throw in active undermining of parents that often occurs with medical professionals, social justice warriors, and some of our own family and friends, and it is hard for parents to cope. Trans is indeed a family destroyer.

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