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Hi, I am just curious how some people deal with transphobia from their families during the holidays? My mom keeps putting my old stocking up and labeled all my gifts with my deadname, won’t call me by my preferred name and is being weird about my mtf gf
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Anonymous 6d

Personally I ignore it. I’ll get a “well actually” quip in here or there, but ultimately I avoid the scream fests bc that does nothing but make me look like an ass to them. I cannot control them, or their feelings. It’s not my job to educate them. It’s their job to love me and wants to learns. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they’re an old dog unable to learn new tricks. It’s not my job to care about them. I can only control my reactions to them, and I choose my own happiness and peace.

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Anonymous 6d

Where’s that tweet about bringing an airhorn and using it every time someone misgenders you

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Anonymous 6d

She labeled all your gifts with your deadname? A sharpie marker can fix that

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Anonymous 6d

My dad told me if im gay to not come out until hes in his grave so thats lowk what imma do. Its sad bc i wish he could walk me down the aisle yk hes my father but i know he would die happier not knowing im gay so idk It hurts and its rlly hard but u have to find a chosen family. Ppl who will never judge u for that and hekp u not feel crazy

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Anonymous 6d

it can be pretty bad, one christmas i sat there and unwrapped all these presents that were hyper feminine, pink, girly, and all of which were things i never expressed an interest in. i made a list of things i wanted. got none of them. i had to sit there and try not to cry as every gift i opened was meant for a teenage girl. i returned every single "present" i could and threw out the rest. im 100% my parents knew exactly what they were doing

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Anonymous 4d

I guess those presents ain’t for you. Who the hell is deadname? Well if my partner ain’t welcome then I aint either.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6d

This is my approach as well I really have grown exhausted of fighting them I just worry for my girlfriend

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6d

Hit em with an “ok boomer” and let it roll off so I can keep having fun on Christmas and it’s silly to let some old fart who spends too much time on facebook to ruin my experience of the hokiday

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6d

Wait that’s literally what I did lmao. Hasn’t been 100% fool proof at preventing the misgendering but blasting an air horn in someone’s face sure shuts them up

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 6d

^ mind you im ftm and had been out as trans for 6 years at that point

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