The thing that people don't understand is that transgender people are not trying to gain rights to use the restrooms and locker rooms assigned the opposite gender to get a sneak peek at your privates. They're trying to use them because they are uncomfortable with their birth-assigned gender and are trying to become the person they feel they were meant to be.
I just answered a pre-recorded, extraordinarily transphobic phone call to my parents house. They'd gotten a young girl to record, "Hi, my name is *Lucy* and I don't want boys in my locker room."
I'm ashamed to live in a family that supports these types of things. I can't expect them to understand, though. The closed-mindedness of what seems to be their entire generation is due to the fact that they were raised to believe the way they do, and there was very little awareness of today's issues.
My own mother has told me that she is convinced I've been possessed by the devil for my actions and beliefs after a conversation in which I expressed that I find nothing wrong with homosexuality, and that being transgender is NOT a "publicity stunt".
I can't believe that my own parents, who I once believed to be thoughtful and caring towards everyone, would turn into such monsters inside my own head. My opinion of them has changed so drastically within the last two years that I'm not even sure they're the ones who raised me.
*is super angry* *will expand on this later*
