Yeah, the phenomenon isn’t unique to trans people if viewed through the lens of expectations for their child. It just takes on a much more extreme reaction/framing when transphobia is involved.

I don’t begrudge my mom for feeling sad about realizing I’m not who she wanted me to be, but those aren’t feelings you should voice to your child who is already struggling.

Topical song

When trans people transition, some people, especially parents, experience a period of grief for the person they knew. Especially transphobic ones describe that as “my son died”.

And they’re right. He killed himself so that I might live.

They’re grieving the loss of who they expected their kid to be

Barotrauma… Train…

I don’t see myself resisting the early access on this one

That’s beans

I like to think he just wasn’t smart enough for granularity, but he probably had us all fooled.

We started with a “zero paw rule” for tables. Our cat, ever the rascal, started to sit on our laps with his front paws on the table propping himself up. It was so cute we had to change it to “two paw rule”. That, of course, turned out to be a legal slippery slope.

Ikr? It turns out you can keep playing once you get to the point you need a complete refactor!

For the longest time i played without knowing you could pause. It’s a totally different game 😂