My mom is really religious and says a lot of "Praise the Lord!"s. She has never said anything positive about gays/lesbians, not that we talk about that but in her mind they are sinners/freaks/what have you. She started to say something about Thomas Beattie that was not flattering but I was in the middle of another sentence and kind of cut her off. Bottom line is she's not very well informed on current issues and still for most things lives in the past, and has refused to educate herself on something as simple as homeschooling (my kids are homeschooled). So trans issues are a huge departure from her world. Mine, too, except I get to live it, LOL.
I had a lot to do to educate myself, because if you had asked me even six months ago if I were a transsexual I would have emphatically declared NO!!! mostly because of the stereotypical images I had of transpeople and because I truly did not know what it meant. Until I discovered that transsexual was the term that described what was wrong with me my whole life.
So, I'm going to see her today, and we'll see if she's still understanding or whether she has the Come To Jesus! speech with me.
Jay
