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Joy's avatar

I am literally crying! My heart goes out to you. I am a transwidow and also 'lost' my children. I had no idea my ex husband had a fantasy that he wished he were a woman until he declared he was one and intended to get surgery! I was pregnant and already had a toddler, so they have grown up with a father who believes himself to be a woman. My only family now is my dog, who was also rejected so we rub along well and trust each other. I cannot afford to subscribe but you are so very much in my thoughts. x

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Denton's avatar

Thanks for responding Joy, and for your supportive words. I'm sorry to hear of your situation, the word "trust" really stuck out to me. I'm getting better at it now but I had terrible trouble trusting anyone or anything at all, after our experience of ambiguous loss. I hope life will improve for you and I'lll be thinking of you and wishing you well always x

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Joy's avatar

I will be thinking of you too x

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Like Joy, below, my sons reject me for the last 4 years, since I announced I will no longer avoid pronouns/use incorrect ones, for their father, the man I married at age 21, 1978. It is truly geometrical progression, the millennials who have been encouraged to go "no contact' from parents who supported them, went to therapy with them, clothed and fed them, got them through college. I had no idea that the professors, therapists and my psychopath ex husband were working on my sons to alienate them from me for, basically, decades. What will those f--ers do when the cult collapses and they have to eat their words?

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Denton's avatar

yes, I often wonder how they'll react. Will some scuttle away like insects looking for a rock to hide under? Others will be holding on to a life raft until they find that it has a slow puncture. I really hope all the kids and young people affected have a soft landing, I don't honestly care much any more about the cult enablers, except to say that those who enabled the transitioning cult through lazy indifference are able to understand the part that they played in the biggest medical scandal of our time.

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Toni's avatar

They will never admit that what they did to these confused kids was evil.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I lost a young adult daughter to natural disaster (lightning) and it drove me to build a farm in her name (she was an ag major). Your strength is amazing as I was saved from going over the edge because she wasn't purposely harmed by another. Justice will come when all the adults harming children are facing a Nuremburg trial.

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マック's avatar

My heart breaks reading both your stories. At most I’ve lost friends over this cult and that’s hard enough. To have your family reject you for standing firmly in reality … I can’t imagine. I wish you both all the love and strength in the world x

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Mona Kingston's avatar

💔💔💔

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Gerda Ho's avatar

The very face of evil!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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