transphobia, abuse, natalie
You know this whole stuff brings up another thing. Not everyone is like, prepared to be a parent. Like, that's kind of an epidemic in this country. The normal response to finding out your kid is trans, even if you don't "get it" is, "okay, I still love you, how can I help?"
transphobia, abuse, natalie
I don't want to single Natalie's parents out here because it's a systemic issue with how children are valued in the US (By a sad number of parents, as investments). But, they stole her medication. This is public record. They literally stole her prescribed HRT meds from her.
transphobia, abuse, natalie
That type of abusive behavior, and yes whether you intend it to be or not stealing your trans kids hrt is abusive behavior, is kind of rampant and it's incredibly unsettling. There seem to be a hidden epidemic of parents who do not know how to react maturally to things.
transphobia, abuse, natalie
I don't think this applies to most parents in America, at all. But I think it's a much bigger problem than anyone is aware of and I think it's evidenced by the amount of parents who are willing to choose transphobia over their own children's well being and livelihood.
transphobia, abuse, natalie
& yeah, I just refuse to believe trans people are at a higher risk of having emotionally immature parents. I think it's that, emotionally immature parents react spectularly horrendously to trans kids, thus showing us that there's a hidden epidemic of emotionally immature parents
transphobia, abuse, natalie
@BinaryVixen899 Additionally, trans* kids come into life with a tough emotional challenge to deal with. And emotionally immature parents can't give them the tools to handle it well, because they haven't got 'em to share. So you have a setup for things to go perfectly horrible when they eventually do come into conflict over it.
transphobia, abuse, natalie
And yeah there's, complications because of society's rampant transphobia but also like. I just refuse to believe that well adjusted emotionally mature parents respond to their kid being trans by doing stuff like kicking them out or stealing their HRT meds or etc.