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Related: About this forumHaving a trans daughter was a wake-up call for this man. This story just made me cry.
SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls bathroom at her Missouri high school. Before the bullying and the suicide attempts. Before she dropped out. Before all that, Dusty Farr was in his own words a full-on bigot. By which he meant that he was eager to steer clear of anyone LGBTQ+.
Now, though, after everything, he says he wouldnt much care if his 16-year-old daughter and he proudly calls her that told him she was an alien. Because she is alive.
When it was my child, it just flipped a switch. And it was like a wake-up," says Farr, who is suing the Platte County School District on Kansas Citys outskirts.
Looking back, Farr figures his daughter, the youngest of five, started feeling out of place in her own body when she was just 6 or 7. But he didnt see it, even as they fished and camped together.
https://www.aol.com/trans-daughter-struggles-father-pushes-041210754.html
UpInArms
(51,763 posts)Thank you for posting
Pacifist Patriot
(24,894 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,894 posts)how, when, or why someone wakes up to their bigotry and embraces the love. I welcome the dad to the bright side with open arms.
Thanks for sharing this!
Lunabell
(6,781 posts)It took years and my stepmother's intervention (after my mother passed) and insistance that my dad accept me and my wife to heal our family from his bigotry. Thankfully, my step-mom knew how to love her children unconditionally and "made" my dad see the light. He died in '19 and I am grateful tofinally have a few years of unconditional love from him. Those in-between years were very painful. And my mother never was accepting, even as I and my wife took care of her while she was dying of cancer.
Javaman
(63,069 posts)prior to that, the world can burn for all they care.
I guess good on this guy, but it only proved my point.
TeamProg
(6,630 posts)before 6 or 7, I would think.