I hate this country sfm

“This country” being the US.

Look. I was a fucking miserable kid. Sure, a lot of it had to do with my parents and I’m not going to get into that, but there was also a huge portion that had to do with what I didn’t realize was gender dysphoria until I was in my fucking thirties.

I figured out I was bi pretty early on, and that was bad enough, since I was raised to believe that in and of itself made me a monster. But when I got into my teens and my body started changing in ways it never should have, I wanted to die. Every single day, I was in pain in ways I couldn’t express. I didn’t even know that trans men were a thing until I was an adult. (Which is not to say that trans women have it easier! They absolutely don’t.)

So when I look around and see kids these days making up silly new genders and pronouns… I feel so happy for them. Like, do I get what it means to be xenogender or want to be called starself? No, and that doesn’t matter as long as they’re happy. Maybe they’ll grow out of it, maybe they won’t. Who cares?

But I’m also so fucking mad because half this country wants to go back to the hell I grew up in — and even further back than that. They want children to be miserable and suicidal as long as it means they never have to think about anything that challenges their worldview.