Quote from: Liminal Stranger on February 09, 2013, 01:17:06 PM
"You never had this problem before!"
"You would have never been like this if I had just kept your father away from you 10 years ago."
"All of this is from abuse."
"All of this is from the Internet."
"All of this is from that a-hole girl you met from your school who wants to be a man."
"All of this is nonsense you just put in your head."
"You can't change what you are." (No kidding -_-)
"Why can't you just accept the way you were born?"
"Why don't you want to be a woman? Why?"
"Give me one example of how you think like a man."
"The only people that will ever accept you are those psychotic freaks who think they're transgender, but they're all sick. All of them have some sort of mental illness."
"Women can do things too!"
"Hormone replacement therapy will give you cancer! Look what it did to your grandmother!" (She took a truckload of estrogen after menopause because she wanted to "feel youthful".)
"Testosterone isn't natural."
"They don't make that from yams."
"Why are you so naive?"
"Why do you believe everything on the Internet?"
"I can't leave you alone knowing that you're throwing your life away!"
"Just get over yourself."
"You know, I was so proud that you were defying all these gender stereotypes, but I can't accept this."
"You're nothing like a man. Now go shave your legs."
"You'll never be normal."
"You'll never be anything if you do this."
"Obviously, you're psychotic."
"We have to get another MRI of your head, because I think there's a massive tumor in your brain now."
"It's just self-image issues."
"You're just using this as a reason for why you're unhappy."
"You're just doing this because you don't fit in."
"If there was a test and it came back negative, would you go work this out with the therapist?" (I said if it were somehow tested, it would come back positive. I know what I am.)
"I'll make you a deal: You have one grandchild, a boy *rolls eyes*, and I'll let you be a boy."
-My mom on me being a transguy
Umm, no. Not only am I possibly infertile, but I would make a horrible dad, and on top of that she told me it would have to be a natural pregnancy. Two things: Unless someone sticks a needle up there after knocking me out, I'm not going to ever have a child in there; and if I did somehow, I would never be able to live with it.
Good job, mom. Make an insane offer to your underage kid and then tell him that he's the crazy one.
I'm bored so I'm going to write why my replies would be if my mom said those things to me (if I had the courage to, that is):
"You never had this problem before!" Yes I have.
"You would have never been like this if I had just kept your father away from you 10 years ago.""All of this is from abuse."
No, I probably wouldn't have been like this if my father gave me the "Y" chromosome."
"All of this is from the Internet."I've been feeling this way long before I was introduced to the internet. All the internet has done was make me realize that I'm not alone in my thinking.
"All of this is from that a-hole girl you met from your school who wants to be a man." (Assuming I knew such a person)
Again, I've had these feelings long before I knew that person.
"All of this is nonsense you just put in your head."It's not nonsense and I didn't have to "put" it in my head. It was already there.
"You can't change what you are." (No kidding -_-)
You're right. I will always be a biological female. That won't stop me from being the man who I will become though.
"Why can't you just accept the way you were born?"Do you walk up to those who were born with a hearing impairment and have hearing devices and ask thm why can't they accept the way they were born? Do you ask those who were born without the ability to walk without assitances why can't they accept the way they were born?
"Why don't you want to be a woman? Why?"It's not a matter of "wanting". If I could be a woman and be happy, then I would be. That would save a lot of time and money, but sadly, that's not the case. I'm not a woman.
"Give me one example of how you think like a man."I don't have to prove myself to you. Go ask a man on the street to give you an example of how they think like a man.
"The only people that will ever accept you are those psychotic freaks who think they're transgender, but they're all sick. All of them have some sort of mental illness."Have you spoken to the other 6 billion people on the planet to confirm that they won't accept me?
"Women can do things too!"Of course they can! Women just don't stop doing things because I'm transgender.
"Hormone replacement therapy will give you cancer! Look what it did to your grandmother!" (She took a truckload of estrogen after menopause because she wanted to "feel youthful".)This is why all HRT should be monitered under strict doctor's care. Besides, I'm not my grandmother so her problems are not my problems.
"Testosterone isn't natural."Glasses aren't either, but people still wear them.
"They don't make that from yams."What?
"Why are you so naive?"According to
Dictonary.com , the definition of "naive" is: Showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment
By this definition, you are technically naive too because you are showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement when it comes to transgender issues.
"Why do you believe everything on the Internet?"I don't believe "everything" on the internet. There are over 1 million sites and I don't have time to go through them all.
"I can't leave you alone knowing that you're throwing your life away!"I'm not throwing my life away. I'm just making decisions for myself for once.
"Just get over yourself."Okay. I will once I do what needs to be done in order for me to be happy.
"You know, I was so proud that you were defying all these gender stereotypes, but I can't accept this."It's not for you to accept.
"You're nothing like a man. Now go shave your legs."There's not one only way to be a man and I there are some women who don't shave their legs.
"You'll never be normal."Who said I wanted to be normal?
"You'll never be anything if you do this."Yes I will. I will be happy.
"Obviously, you're psychotic."Well, you had me so what does that say about you? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
"We have to get another MRI of your head, because I think there's a massive tumor in your brain now."
"It's just self-image issues."Everyone has them and deals with them differently. This is how I will deal with mine.
"You're just using this as a reason for why you're unhappy."Nope. This IS the reason why I'm unhappy.
"You're just doing this because you don't fit in."Yeah, because being transgender in this society makes you fit in like a pair of one-size-fits-all jeans.
"If there was a test and it came back negative, would you go work this out with the therapist?" (I said if it were somehow tested, it would come back positive. I know what I am.)I would work it out with a therapist whether it came back positive or negative. That is usually the first step.
"I'll make you a deal: You have one grandchild, a boy *rolls eyes*, and I'll let you be a boy."No.
