1/ CW: Being in the Closet. Family Emotions
2/ Imagine if you will that a young person comes to the realisation that they are Queer. Lets say a young girl realises she is a Lesbian.
3/ It comes like a bolt from the blue. The reality sinks in. And now the worry starts.
4/ What will my friends think? What will my parents think? What will my teachers think? Will i lose friends? Will i be shunned?
5/ For this young girl, her family is very straight laced. She does not expect a positive response. And her friends make homophobic jokes. So she decides to stay "In the closet".
6/ So she is quiet about her personal truth. And over years she quietly gets in touch with other Lesbians, perhaps online, perhaps anonymously. Maybe she goes out on dates with boys as her parents were asking questions.
7/ Years pass, and while still young, she reaches a tipping point. And decides to share her truth with the world.
8/ We, as queer people, applaud her for her journey. Her parents deny her truth, and fight it, and we point at them as being bad, because they do not accept the truth of their daughter.
9/ We know this story. We accept it. A person hides their truth for ages, then comes out all of a sudden, and then openly lives their truth. And lives it HARD. How many times have we seen our friends in queer circles going from the closet to 110% .
10/ This was a slow, methodical process for that girl, all fought in her head, every step considered, with social stigma and bullying as well as the monolithic nastiness that could result in telling the world her truth.
11/ And we accept it. Queer circles accept this as a story that many are aware of, and many live.
12/ So why am I telling you stuff you already know?
13/ Change the story, one bit. The girl is trans. She hides her truth, She speaks online with other trans people, when she comes out she expresses her truth and her gender expression openly.
14/ So why in the name of almighty fuck is the idea of "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" ever listened to by any queer person ever, or acknowledged, or allowed to even gain any traction?
15/ A person, in the closet for years, comes out. This is not a news flash.
16/ This is not a new story. It is never a new story. So why are people trying to make it some sort of "new condition". As if deciding that living your truth is more important that the rampant stigma and attacks is not one of the hardest decisions ever made.
17/ If you are queer, and you are transphobic, then you deserve a very special place in hell for those who try to pull the ladder up from others who are disadvantaged. For expressing the same shite that the anti-queer groups say all the time. And i want no part of you.
18/ End of line.
@threadreaderapp unroll please
This thread brought to you by me hearing all about how @ZJemptv is getting hammered by this ROGD bullshit. URGHHH
Also a big shout out to trans twitter and youtube, filled with amazing people just fighting to be allowed to be themselves.
