My son is transgender, loud and proud about it.
He's absolutely one of my top two favorite people; not just because he's my child, but because he's funny, intelligent, warm, helpful, understanding, creative, and so many other positive things. That guy makes me proud to be his dad on the regular.
Losing the person he is because he didn't feel he could be open with me or with his mom would've gutted us, no chance of recovery.
Fight to be the sort of person a friend or a child can turn to when they want, need to share who they are. #TransgenderAwarenessWeek
Y'all, I love that you love this post.
I'm autistic as hell in many ways, and get uncomfortable with focused attention I feel is "unwarranted". It's part of why I set my profile to send follow requests instead of simply allowing follows, and definitely why I only have 90 followers. They are, with few exceptions, folks I spoke with, not at.
I got a bunch of requests sitting in the queue, and right now? They're waiting for me to reject them, as few people are looking at my profile and seeing this pinned post [hackers.town]. It may be a foible of the software; I'm going to restate it explicitly in my profile.
But you, if you're in that queue right now and reading this: Please speak with me, even a little. I feel real weird otherwise.