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Lunabell

(6,810 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:25 AM Apr 2024

Having 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 wouldn’t 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 City’s 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 didn’t see it, even as they fished and camped together.

https://www.aol.com/trans-daughter-struggles-father-pushes-041210754.html

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Having a trans daughter was a wake-up call for this man. This story just made me cry. (Original Post) Lunabell Apr 2024 OP
The entire article should be read UpInArms Apr 2024 #1
Agree! Pacifist Patriot Apr 2024 #3
Mom of a trans daughter here, and I don't care... Pacifist Patriot Apr 2024 #2
Coming out as lesbian to my hard right wing religious parents was really difficult. Lunabell Apr 2024 #5
typical right wing. something is only an issue when it happens to them Javaman Apr 2024 #4
Poor kid. Parents should have an idea, with the clues that are given TeamProg Apr 2024 #6

Pacifist Patriot

(24,901 posts)
2. Mom of a trans daughter here, and I don't care...
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:25 AM
Apr 2024

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

(6,810 posts)
5. Coming out as lesbian to my hard right wing religious parents was really difficult.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:36 AM
Apr 2024

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

(63,100 posts)
4. typical right wing. something is only an issue when it happens to them
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:34 AM
Apr 2024

prior to that, the world can burn for all they care.

I guess good on this guy, but it only proved my point.

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