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I was lucky, without my family I could have been in Lilas situation. Many trans kids are.I guess that's why I want to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Ask Kojiro if her mom would have helped her get on testosterone blockers and hormones before high school.
You can be closeted for a real long time.
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
a reply to: Kojiro
You can be closeted for a real long time.
Oh I know that. I guess I should have explained better. What I meant that I think it's way harder for transpeople to be in the closet than gay people. At early age transchildren exhibit behaviors that are of the opposite sex. Well now I think about it parents do suppress that.
Some kids are stronger willed than others. Both Kojiros mom and my mom and dad tried to suppress us.
Unlike Lila though, I knew to tuck my stuff.
originally posted by: Kojiro
a reply to: Deaf Alien
Parents can be extremely oppressive. Go back about ten pages; I posted my general life story in this thread. Oh heck, here's a link for convenience.
Page 40
Unlike Lila though, I knew to tuck my stuff.
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
Well now I think about it parents do suppress that.
If this is something Lila sprung on her parents at 17... um, I don't know what that means but it does seem unusual.
originally posted by: Kojiro
a reply to: EKron
Well, if they're anything like my mother, they'd probably be in willful denial about the whole thing. I had to actually take my mother back through memory lane and proceed to point at each of the clues. She was stubborn about remembering a few of them, but eventually she had to partially concede the point.
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
Imagine my surprise when Neil Patrick Harris announced that he was gay. He is a manly man.
I never once though I was a gay boy.
originally posted by: thov420
Dang, I didn't even want to click this thread but ran out of others so wanted to see what's up. 28 pages in and It's obvious there are a lot of strong opinions and feelings about this topic. There has been a lot of attacks and actually more apologies than I would have thought, which is encouraging.
At the same time, a majority of the vitriol generally seems to be coming from the people on Lila's "side". Words like ignorant, clueless, backwards, etc only cause tension and division. Why do her feelings trump the feelings of the other girls in that locker room with her? The article says 200 walked out for and against her, what were the actual numbers? Shouldn't that make a difference in a case like this? 10 on either side is only 5% while 100 each is obviously 50/50. How do the actual people who are affected by this feel?