As your son, yes I said son, society believes I should respect you but how may I ask am I supposed to respect a man who blatantly disregards my identity?
How am I supposed to respect a man who believes my sexuality is a phase? A man who's inherent sexism is forever plastered in my brain as his view of feminine people and whose vapid arguments of homophobia fall flat because they are so out dated.
Yet you claim to love us so much. You claim to care and only want the best for us but turn around and deny us.
You always acted like you wanted boys instead, why does it matter that we were assigned female at birth?
It doesn't matter to me how or when you were raised. This is now, this is how the world is and there's nothing you can do to change it. We are who we are and no amount of denial and bitterness from you will change it.
I understand that the natural instict is to fear what you don't understand so let me help you. I have so much I've learned just in the last year about the LGBTQ+ community and about being transgender. I have so much I'm willing to share and to teach you if you were just willing to try. You may not want to acknowledge it but your health isn't the best and I don't want to spend the rest of my life resenting you for something that could be fixed so easily.
You may still view me as a child and forget my age but I'm 20now. I know more of who I am and I just want you to love me for who I am now, not who I was 4 or 5 years ago. I'm not that shy 15 years old girl who never thought she'd find girls attractive, I'm a grown ass man who knows what he wants in life and would love your support while getting it.
I have big plans and the life I have ahead of me is going to be hard but also wonderful and beatiful.
I would love to have you along for the ride, to see the man I'm becoming.
