this post really blew up so I think I should share my story too, I’m not exactly a full blown communist or anything but I’m left enough that most of my family and friends think I’m dumb for it. [tw suicide and family abuse]

basically when I was young I had a really good friend, one that helped me immensely and I spent a lot of time with her having fun together and doing art together and such, she was a person that was always there for me when I was feeling awful, lifted up my spirits, her strength always helped me keep going on despite all the crap that happened in our lives. She was also trans…

I never really cared but her parents were conservative catholics that hated even just gay people. mine aren’t super better either. One day she said she finally had the courage to come out, and I was ignorant and innocent at the time, didn’t think it’d be a bad idea, but when she did she got beaten and told she was going to be sent to a mental asylum. Never heard of her after that, either her life was taken away from her or she took her own life.

I remember telling my family and they all seemed to agree it was a good idea. I got so mad and they didn’t listen and just told me to shut up. To this day they don’t care about her. It was a really traumatic experience for me, because then I proceeded to look into the people I was following, both family I looked up to and youtubers I used to watch (I was an edgy atheist so you can guess which youtubers). I learned that they were all transphobic and bigoted. All of them would have defended my friend’s parents.

So I took it all down, I never heard from those assholes again. I couldn’t believe I looked up to people I thought were rational yet were lying to me about trans issues. What else were they lying to me about? Well… it turned out to be a lot.