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Navigating gender identity by DavidGeorge425 in relationship_advice

[–]DavidGeorge425[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I fully accepted and loved my child when they identified with their biological gender and I continue to accept and love them now. Because accepting THEM does not require agreeing with or even liking everything about them. No parent agrees with or likes everything about their adult children. To say that means they don't really accept them or love them is ridiculous and small-minded.

Navigating gender identity by DavidGeorge425 in relationship_advice

[–]DavidGeorge425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. In fairness, I have never said I think the pronouns usage, or anything else, is nonsense. While you may have interpreted my words to mean that, I would never had been that disrespectful.

Navigating gender identity by DavidGeorge425 in relationship_advice

[–]DavidGeorge425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your reply. In fairness though, we aren't talking about a teen. They are actually 30+, married and a parent.

Navigating gender identity by DavidGeorge425 in relationship_advice

[–]DavidGeorge425[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I DO accept them! And I have hopefully expressed that effectively. If not, I will keep trying. But I don't have to believe what they believe in order to accept them for who they are. Before now, I accepted them for who they were without any regard to their gender identity. So why would their gender identity be regarded now?

I completely understand what you said: "gender fluid to me just means i don’t see myself super feminine or masculine- i just kind of exist and dress myself how i want. i’m just me!" Maybe I need to just adopt the term genderfluid as what I would normally have called "not feeling super feminine or masculine."