Today, I came out to my parents as trans. They immediately took my remaining college savings, canceled my credit card, and began plotting to abduct me and "wean me off hormones, like a heroin addict." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I came out to my therapist as gay. Claiming that my parents "can't be that homophobic", my therapist outed me to them. They kicked me out of the house. FML
Today, I finally told my parents I'm trans. My dad started crying and told me he loved me no matter what. My mother threw a chair at me, and told my dad it was his "wife-like" behaviour that made me this way. She then prayed out loud for an hour for God to send her a real husband and son. FML
Today, I came out as transgender to my extremely accepting and religious family over Facebook. My feed is currently flooded with plans for my exorcism. FML
Today, I came out to my parents as lesbian. Surprisingly, they were OK with it… just as long as I still marry a dude, give them grandbabies, and keep the whole lesbian thing a deep, dark, shameful secret that we never talk about again. FML
Today, I came out to my parents. They laughed in my face. FML
Today, I'm a closeted trans man, and I feel terrible every time my family calls me "she" or "girl". Help me, I don't know how to come out. FML
Today, I came out to my parents. They still think I'm joking. FML
Today, I briefly considered coming out to my parents when the topic of LGBTQ+ people came up in conversation, until my dad called them “socially deranged.” FML
Today, I finally decided to tell my parents I was a lesbian. They spent the next few hours reading me the bible. FML
Today, my girlfriend trusted me enough to tell me that she's trans. I have no problem with this, the problem is my sister overheard her. She ran and told our parents, who are also our landlords, so now either I dump the woman I love or we'll both be homeless. FML
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Donut_Wizard 23
How dare they do that. I will use my donut magic to make them shit out stale, rock hard tabasco donuts for a month.
ChakatBlackstar 29
Wait...how do you condone or not condone gender dysphoria? That's like saying you approve or don't approve of clinical depression or being color blind or something. It exists, end of story. I mean, at best you can say you believe in it or not, but you can't really condone or not condone it.
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Comments (30)
Chazzster 32
OP - It’s really sad that when you came out to your parents this was their response. It makes me wonder if you had revealed your feelings along the way as they came to you if they would have responded the way they did, given time to digest what was going on. Sometimes I think it’s a mistake to hold back such important information until you “come out” all at once instead of letting your parents have the opportunity to have grown with you if that was possible. But in truth I do not know. OP, the other side of the coin is that if I read between the lines correctly - Were you using a credit card paid by your parents or your college fund to pay for hormone treatments? If you were, it was wrong to have done so without their knowledge. If you had a job and paid for your expenses then that is no issue in my opinion. I will be honest, I have never had to go through this either with my parents or children, so all I can do is speculate.
interesting33 37
this was a thoughtful and well measured response
thatslifeiguess7 16
my daughter is trans we support her 100%. huge hugs message me. on here if you need to talk
SJKatt 15
I can't believe people laugh reacted this, this is terrifying. I'm so sorry.
Zeatha Mistron 7
Should’ve waited until after college before coming out.
BrotherPhil 35
If them taking the college fund means that you're out of college, that does have the advantage of not having to stay where they can find you. Hope things work out.
maddy35315 4
Go to the cops if they’re talking about abducting you
Jarred Sellmeyer 11
Totally deserved.
cleoKay 3
If they are cancelling your credit card it's obviously not yours to begin with right? Why do american youngins always seem to have credit cards given to them by their parents? Is this the standard? Help and Aussie out Also you're very brave to come out as trans! I hope you can find as much support as possible even though your parents are fucktards.