u/ethan_is_depressed

Came out as transgender and thoroughly regret it...

So I recently came out as transgender to my mother (13 FtM) and I have to say, the experience was awful. I had been hinting it for the past two or three months and finally decided to come out. Made a presentation, did the whole "what is a transgender, what is dysphoria?" thing, told her about how I felt and why I wanted to socially transition (getting the right pronouns used).

It went horrible.

For context, throughout the whole presentation my mom kept trying to guilt-trip me by saying things like "But I only gave birth to you because I wanted a girl child", "I bet you're only doing this to be more like your older brother" and "But you look so pretty as a girl."

Finally, I was so done with her obvious boredom and stormed out after about thirty minutes of trying to explain how I felt and her replying with "It's just a phase" and "Nobody in the society is going to use your pronouns/ use your new name (because it isn't inherently cultural).

I think the worst part was when she used my new name "Ethan" to mock me and "placate me".

Later, I asked her if she was going to be supportive or not and asked for a yes/no answer to which she just told me that "I was being overdramatic and I was spoiling the mood as always". Now I'm stuck because my mom keeps trying to distract me from the fact I came out as transgender by doing things like buying me stuff, acting kind towards me and so on (while using the wrong pronouns).

I am so done with trying to tell my mother or my older brother how I feel because they both think it's not that big of a deal and that it's just another "phase" of mine.

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with parents that aren't actually bad but disregard their pronouns and are transphobic?

(Thank you for reading my huge vent post, by the way, appreciate it.)

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u/ethan_is_depressed — 4 days ago