I always get a kick out of people saying I have Munchausen's by Proxy because I have a trans child (which happened again today!).
It doesn't even make sense. If I did, my child would have a set of mystery symptoms no one could diagnose, not a solid identity + support plan.
It doesn't even make sense. If I did, my child would have a set of mystery symptoms no one could diagnose, not a solid identity + support plan.
Munchausen's/Munchausen's by proxy are serious conditions, and to armchair diagnose affirming parents of trans kids - or, frankly, ANYONE - with them is ignorant at best and dangerous at worst. It goes to show the level of irrational hatred transphobes have.
Like any hate group, transphobes (especially TERFs) have conspiracy theories that are widely supported in their groups to justify that hatred. Mentally ill parenting is one such theory, homophobic parenting another. But what it all boils down to is they just hate trans people.
To accept that a child is trans and that those around the child believe and support them is too much for them because THEY wouldn't believe or support their kids. In order to deflect the fact that this makes them awful people unwilling to learn, they blame the kids & the parents.
I'm a "lecture the damn internet" roll today. I should have just given everyone a mom lecture last night and got it out of my system.
