I lost another one. Unlike the first I wrote about, this is one I can't opt out of interaction of.
I came to this site specifically because of this thread.
You try to steel yourself from it all. You know what to expect, you know how the song and dance works with people who are of this ilk after years of reading and watching socials.
But, it's not enough. It finds a way to really fuck with you mentally and emotionally. I hate these people. I hate that they have made me disenfranchised from my original beliefs and values. I hate that they take and subvert every hobby that I have enjoyed. I hate that they claim to be happy and know whats best for everyone when they have the most hollowed out eyes a living body could ever have.
I have to be vague about all details here for sake of PL:
My subject is an in-law. (MTF)
We have always been on good terms. He has historically had problems with his mental health, but had gotten better entering higher academia with a very specific focus. I would say just from a glance that he has very high functioning autism which helps with his academic career choice in a very intensive hard-scientific field.
One thing of note: He has a habit of taking on other peoples personality. It has been a reoccurring issue since we were introduced. His closest friend was a climate/covid/govt.-conspiracy nut, which pushed him to the point where he was convinced that in 5 years the coasts of the US were going to be submerged, that they needed to create a self-sustaining bunker in the plains with a stocked armory before the US govt. tried to seize or make it illegal to own land and that people who didn't take the vax were going to become spreader zombies. I wish I made that up.
Having a significant other changed that up. Things were looking better, until she cheated on him. We( friends and family) helped him out, and got him focused on what's going good in his life. It was during this time we really connected, and I was told through family that he really liked and respected me because of my intelligence. The family saw me as a positive figure for him.
Then came the new girl. I could see the red-flags from a mile away. Met on a dating app (call me old soul or old fashioned, dating apps just host lonely leftovers) and essentially moved in within a month of knowing each other.
The new girl claimed to be NB, was overweight, white, and loved to complain about everything you'd see on a breadtube 'deo. No fucking fashion sense, at this point I'm willing to enroll in the fashion Stasi.
My real first impression was just "Really? This is the stock you're betting on?"
More peculiar weird shit came out of her consistently as we hung out over time:
- She would talk shit constantly at every opportunity about her family.
- She would correct him at any talking point possible, even if he was in the right.
- She loved to talk about how much of a whore she was with her previous relationship as if it was "cool".
- If the topic even uttered the word sex, she'd be all over it.
I mentioned to others that these were definite red flags and maybe we should talk to him about it, but people in my social circles have a habit of telling me I was right after the damage has been done.
After a year or two, it finally came for him. He started getting injections, and his focus zero'd in on only trans subjects. Before her, he was a heavy skeptic in the belief of trans people. All clues pointed to her being responsible for the change.
Things only became more alarming to the family when it came out that apparently she became angry and full of envy when he was called to go out of the country for a work trip due to the nature of his field. I don't have to explain why that's fucked up.
When it came time to see him, I don't know, the emotions are hard to describe and its why I read these threads in the first place. It felt like there was never any closure, no "here's why", no pull to the side to have a heart-to-heart. Everyone in the family just kowtowed and used the new name and pronouns and acted like everything was fine.
It later came to me through other channels that the Mum was very, very concerned and did not trust the girl. Mum is hurt that this was hidden from her, fearful that he will cut of his penis in the future. The whole thing about left-leaning White women being cool with T+ until it hits their own son is true I guess because she is a card carrying liberal type. I've been dropping counter-narratives subtly in the meantime in order to help console and convince others that we need to separate them before it moves into the isolation stage where she gets him completely out of their reach.
I don't have a satisfying way to end this post, but to be honest the trans movement as a whole is never satisfying to deal with.