Hang on, let me get the book
"You're not a boy, so just get over yourself and learn to accept the way you are."
"No, this is not you."
"I gave birth to a girl! I know what you are!"
"What, do you think I'm going to allow you to cut your breasts off?!"
"You're so scientific. You know that injecting male hormones into a female body is harmful. You have so many other issues- why cause more?"
"Why can't you just stop this? You're killing me. I'm going to die of a heart attack because you're stressing me."
"No matter how many times you say it, this will never be true."
"I know you're not meant to be this. I just know it, don't ask me how."
"I raised you for all these years! I think I know you by now!"
"You've just put this in your head. You manipulated yourself into believing this."
"People don't go around changing their bodies like that. ...They do? Well, anyone who does that is sick!"
"Why can't you just be normal? Why do you have to be a psychotic freak?!"
"I don't believe in those kinds of people. I think they're all crazy."
"You can't just go against biology."
"You want to do this when you're 18? Go ahead. Leave, and I'll just wash my hands of you for good."
"So I'm just supposed to believe that this has been going on?"
"You haven't always been like this."
"You didn't find this out during (insert approximate time here)."
*Trigger warning?*"Maybe your father caused this. He did cause a lot of damage when he hit you." (Nope, not going into this one.)
</trigger>
"You were just happy being a girl."
"You know, that brain tumor could be causing all of this."
"You're just putting this in your head."
"That ***hole of a boyfriend you have put this in your head. This is just to fulfill one of his sick fantasies."
"I know you haven't had the best childhood, and I think that may have caused this."
"Why are you doing this to me?!"
On parenting:
"You'll make a great mother someday!"
NO."You have to have children! How else am I going to have grandkids?"
"How could you possibly know you don't want kids yet? Just wait and see."
"I can see it now! You'll fall in love with a professor, and the two of you will work side by side in lab coats, with the children playing in the adjacent room behind a glass safety door, and chimpanzees will take care of them and feed them with the bottle like this *makes feeding motion*. They'll have bonnets on and everything because they're trained to be nannies, since you don't like the idea of pawning children off onto other people."
So..., I want my body to be male so I can actually live my life in peace, and she wants my children to be raised by bonnet-wearing chimpanzees. And I'm the crazy one here.
But wait, there's more!
"Name one thing about you that makes you a boy."
"You know, when I was a kid, I thought about it too. But then I fell in love with a nice boy, grew out of that phase and moved on with my life."
"Why can't you just admit that you're a lesbian?"
"How do you think this could possibly make you happier?"
"I hate to tell you, but sexual orientation and gender identity are the same thing."
"Sex and gender are interchangeable."
"You're throwing your life away!"
"Do you think people are actually going to be accepting of you?"
Well, anyone else I've told has given me this general response:
"Huh, that's actually really cool."
Followed by some questions on what they should do pronoun and namewise and if and when I plan to transition by surgical means- you know, the whole nine yards, discussed as casually as the weather.
Then I have to go back to hearing this kind of thing:
"You have all these opportunities and you're giving them up for this nonsense!"
"You're never going to have a normal relationship."
"What do you think, people won't know you were born a
girl?"
Now, this person claims to "love me no matter what", yet is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the accepting friends whom she says don't exist. Then she accused me of selling my ADD medication to kids in school.
Fun.
