Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that’s an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can’t take that shit anymore. I feel it’s a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i’m in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who’ve been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US.
It means that there are a lot of trans people who get disowned by unsupportive parents
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Or who have to go no contact because keeping up with the verbal abuse is too draining. Like, that’s an actual term in US queer communities, to go no contact. When you stop answering calls and coming over for the holidays because you just can’t take that shit anymore. I feel it’s a lot more widespread among Amerikan queer people (not just trans and nonbinary folks, also gay cis people) than among Europeans. Like, i’m in community with some people who have really awful, transphobic parents who constantly deadname and misgender them and just act like complete douches at every opportunity, and i know stories of queer people who’ve been homeless for a while because their parents immediately kicked them out of the house when they came out, this happens here as well, but the open hostility and especially the homelesness thing seems more common in the US.