One of my children is questioning their gender, and they seem at ease with non-binary. I found this out yesterday, so I’m approaching this gently, though I feel ill-prepared. I want to be who they need.
I’m curious about the experiences of other parents, or stories about your parents learning to adjust if you came out to them.
Follow-up: Thank you all so much for your stories and your feedback!
Gay (I’m including bi here)? Kinda 🤷 despite my background. There’s no immorality nor ideological confusion/whim behind it: some guys just come out liking men, some girls just come out liking women.
Trans, NB and other “gender identities”? I would pray they grow out of it, that it’s just a phase and not a casualty of the newest form of Western degeneracy/ideological degradation, and I’d feel like I failed a little (although I’d still know it’s mostly the rotten, truth-denying culture I raised my kid in). I’ll make an exception for effeminate sons and masculine daughters, as long as that’s what you define yourself as (and you’re not simultaneously denying but also aspiring to change sexual categories). And I’m just answering the question and being truthful here, not “hating”, btw… I might be wrong in my understanding of things, after all.
I’d say “good luck, be strong”, but it seems like you’ve got this. 👍
If you have kids, please read a book about gender. If you don’t, please also read one.
That’s really not the point. If someone steps on your foot, it still hurts, even if it was unintentional.
If your username didn’t already give me pause, your reply here would have. Yikes.
What exactly do you think is so bizarre and shocking about either my username or my post? Try to see it from a non-European/Western perspective (around 90% of the world) that isn’t limited to the last two decades.