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"I’m still going to have your back"
fantastic !
That's how a dad should be!
You don't just leave your child.
He's trying to be a good father and an honest man to his faith.
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Bailey Summers
Great chapter!
You do the best dads.
nomad
It's a balance with this dad.
He's a man of faith and I'm not really from a religious upbringing so getting that right and balancing it with single parent is a little tricky.
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Bailey Summers
Why???????
Why couldn't I have had a parent like Deidre's father?
Why did I have to grow up with ultra-conservative, red-neck, pseudo- religious assholes for parents?
Well Bailey, you made my day with another chapter of Bridges, and you made me cry with another episode of Sooners than Laters. What's next?
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Well Dallas it does help that I'm writing of a...
whole different generation of people. Parents have changed a good deal with the times but despite bad attitudes that linger. And despite the current horrible things going on and coming out of places like they are in the mid-west I wanted to show that it's got good folks there too.
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Bailey Summers
Solid support
Good for her. Thanks
Nicely done
Another good story, that also deals with more than transitioning.
Letting others know your life is now different is difficult, but living with or around people who treat others as subhuman is worse.
Dee coming out to his dad, and the way dad reacted, showed he's a person who treats others as he wants to be treated. Yes, Dee coming out was something different to him but Dee is his child and that will never change. As dad said, it's Dee's coming out, but he'll have her back.
Both families accepting Dee and Quinn coming is one big weight off their shoulders. Now if things would go as well outside the families.
Others have feelings too.
Pretty good
So after reading about Leela and getting gutpunched every time her parents called her Josh and by a male pronoun (and being worried about my own eventual demise and what arrangements will be made, etc) I am appalled by the reaction of the trans community. Her parents don't get what being trans is, they just don't. It sucks, it sucks so bad that a girl killed herself. It sucks so bad that a girls family has lost their daughter; they think they lost a son and THEY did, even though their daughter died. Then compound that gut wrenching agony with threats and shit like that?! It is enough that their ignorance is being punished with the loss of their child. Adding to that, obstructing their ability to mourn, is as bad as the Westboro or whatever church picketing funerals. It is horrible. I realize that this is a comment about a story that is currently being side tracked, but I would truly like to see something written that might make our community stop and self-reflect so that we can learn something like American society did for OIF/OEF vets after Vietnam's vets were mistreated.
And on to my comments about the story.
I think that I have problems with the people that talk to god and that think that they know what they’re talking about.
Even in our church too, there are those who Soooo don’t get the casting of first stones thing or judge not.
“Ow…ow…son of a clown!”
(!)(are these ass clowns, or just average run of the mill nasty clowns?) (forgive my clown hatey statements, they just push the shudder button for me)
She nods. “There’s days that I would kind of like to be able to like tame Yavin and Endor.”
I crack up at that because she has always called her big boobs the twin death stars.
Being straight’s a big deal.
(gotta admit, I'd never thought of it that way, but too true)
(Transview vs Femenistview ... ... to Schnell with that! A true feminist should realize that there ARE women who LIKE doing classic 'female' role things and there isn't ANYTHING wrong with it!)
honestly like my brain is still in old me mode, fake me mode and I’m still getting caught up when I’m complimented or properly gendered.
(ya, feels so goodweird right!?)
“Truscum are like people that thing that there’s a set bar to be trans, that you have to be in transition to be treated seriously or that you have to have gender dysphoria so bad that you can’t function. It’s really a horrible thing that excludes all of the trans folks that lived without or are living without any hope of ever transitioning and are still carrying on.”
He’s frowning. “That’s like people who think that other Christians aren’t Christian enough because they don’t hate other folks or discriminate against them….or sounds like it.”
you’re a big girl sure and you’re different sure but I’ve seen a lot more manly women than you
(So while it probably sucks monkey butt to be the girls manlier than most transwomen, I am so ever thankful to them for putting up with the flack (and raising the bar) they take for us (even if it is unwillingly (I can't control what they nor I look like)) from a cruel fashionista society that hates anyone that doesn't fit their cookie cutter mold)
Absolutely great comment!
This was amazing to read.
Bailey Summers