Spent some time with my parents the other day. I had felt pretty nervous about going due to experiencing some dysphoria and knowing that if any LGBTQ subjects were brought up, they’d immediately say something offensive and invalidating.

But of course, they had to bring up the topic and it went like this:

Mom: There’s a lot of girls coming into the clinic now insisting on being called “he”

Dad: *scoffs* Oh great.

Mom: Yeah, they want to take hormones and their parents are allowing them but [Doctor] isn’t comfortable with giving them.

Dad: Well yeah, they’re too young. It’s scary how young they are nowadays, they haven’t even had a chance to go through puberty yet.

Me: (Not really equipped to debate this topic) Actually, there’s a lot of scholarly articles and science-based evidence that supports-

Dad: -No, no, those articles are written by college students that are just following a trend.

Me: *quietly* I don’t think they’re written by college students and that’s not the only proof out there. There’s also-

Dad: It’s just a trend and they’re going to regret their decision after a few years. It all comes down to DNA. You can take hormones or whatever but if you have male chromosomes, you have male chromosomes and vice versa.

Me: But-

Mom: -Yeah I agree.

Dad: That’s the problem with these new trends, they’re so harmful... blah blah blah Bible stuff

Me: *stares out window and dissociates*

Whenever I’m enjoying spending time with them, something like this always comes up and I’m reminded why I keep my distance.

I’m posting here and not an LGBT support page because it’s not just subjects like this that my parents act like this. Growing up, I was always told who I was going to be and what I couldn’t be. My family pretty much didn’t approve of any aspect of my personality which I feel like is why I have such an unstable sense of self now. Can anybody relate? Is this where a lot of us get our unstable personality from?