Hi @eth 🌺
Sorry, a few domestic duties got in the way 🙂
So glad it's helping you to talk. It's hard to keep things bottled up, and I don't know about you, but when I start to chat about things that are cluttering my mind and heart and are difficult to process, hearing them coming out of my mouth or down on paper helps me to see things a little more clearly in the process.
To clarify, I'm sure we all know that gender dysphoria is not something new. So where have all the people been who have been struggling with it previously ? They have either been struggling in intense private pain, living a secret double life - a different public one to their private one - or have been feeling as though it is something they can't even admit to themselves and trying to live the lie that everything is okay with them in bothe the public and private arenas of their lives.
Revisiting social strictures can release these people from that dilemma, but that is obviously an understatement. It's nowhere near that simple. There are intense personal struggles, issues of acceptance, issues with family relationships .... I don't have to tell you any of this ❤️
At the heart of any issue, this or many, many others, lie people, and people gotta live !!! We have to start always with basic human needs of empathy / love and acceptance of the person themselves. Everything else is layers on top, diverse layers that create our individuality.
As the "rules" relax and the issues are brought out into the open, of course you will have teenage (and otherwise) rebellion, where people who have not struggled with this issue "try on" the "lifestyle". Sorry if that could have been more sensitively said, but I think you know where I am going with this, and it's not to do directly with your daughter. Others will cloud the issue for personal attention, social statement, vindictiveness towards I accepting family, or whatever. It will be messy, as these things are, but as we move past that stage, I hope and pray we will be supporting these, our hitherto "hidden" society members to be mentally and emotionally well.
Aside from contentious differences between us, everybody has value, everybody has gifts, everybody deserves consideration and respect.
That is foundational to most religions and spiritual concepts.
Be well @eth. Hugs ❣
