Kind of off topic perhaps, but in trying to peak my mom I told her about some of the stuff I'd seen on egg_irl and /lgbt/, you know, the content that makes it clear that almost every tranny is really just a freak with a fetish, and she actually got mad at me for "invading their private spaces" and said that "what they talk about with each other isn't really your business". THEN went on with an analogy about how a man joined a breast cancer recovery facebook group she's in where women were showing their surgery results and such, and told me about how uncomfortable this made the women in the group, because it "was none of his business and that was their safe space". Somehow the moral of that story was that I shouldn't do the same thing to troons, and not the fact that SHE LITERALLY PROVED MY POINT.
I force-fed both my parents What Is A Woman and while my dad adored it, my mom kept saying shit like "I think I actually respect them [transgenders] more now, I can kind of understand what they're trying to say!!!!" (Silent during the John Money segment of course.) We were friends with a Christian family for years, and a couple of years ago the dad trooned out (after cheating on his wife while in womanface, apparently) divorce ensued, my mom was clapping her hands with glee at the chance to be an ally or whatever you wanna call it, and decided to arrange a playdate for this newly found troon with an old lesbian friend of hers (and that lesbian's friends). Before this, she had made a point of saying "Men and women are different, they really are, and [Troon] never really struck me as a masculine person, they were always gentler and more respectful when men tend to be more selfish and such" (this is not the sentence word for word, this was like 2 years ago and is the jist of what she said after I prodded her on how they're different). Not a week later and she came to me angry about how men are so "sexually oriented". Why? Because when my mom told Troon about the playdate thing he was all for it, then texted her later with a "Just checking, is this a hookup?" And somehow she STILL doesn't understand.
There's many, many more disturbing instances of her being a tranny rider (heck, once she told me about a client who was a teen tranny and said in response to my disproval, "Well who am I to tell them what they're feeling isn't real??" Idk, umm you're her THERAPIST so you are exactly who to tell her) but I have a sliver of hope that when the pendulum swings back around and everyone realizes the truth of the trannies (it WILL happen one day, frens) that she'll swing back with it, probably for the same social reasons she's with it now.
The funniest part is that when I was 6 or so I begged and begged for MONTHS to be a boy and her response was essentially "well you're not." I doubt she would have trooned me out had I been 10 years younger, but still, an interesting tidbit from a better time.
