I saw this post an needed to create a new account to clarify a bit...

Ok, I saw this post on the frontpage. I understand, that with all the discussion about gender in the US and among the people on imgur, at first glance you could think this is just horrible. But me, it just makes me sad. I am a father to a transgender girl (born as a boy) an please don't start judging and don't stop reading just yet. I didn't know just how early this could start until it started in my family. Already at the age of two, the then-boy started to dress as a girl (we didn't make him, he just took all the clothes of his sister), of cause we were thinking that this was a phase. But it just didn't change. He started to say that he didn't want to be a boy, that he was no boy and so on. At first, as he was smaller, they alloued him to go to the kindergarten dressed as a girl (the other kids didn't mind at all.) Later, they tried to make it stop so we decided, that he had to go as a boy for his own sake. Ok, so now imagine your child, sitting at the table for breakfast every morning, being devastated and sad, just not understanding why he can't be what he feels to be. Starting to hate kindergarten. Not wanting to play with anybody, because always being confronted with existencial questions no child should be supposed to deal with every day all the time. He / She just wants to play with the other kids. Tell your sad child in the face, WHY it has to pretend to be something it isn't. There is no explanation. Now, we talked to psychatrists. There are quite a lot of trans-children, it is normal that it starts as early as in the age of 2 and there ist not one known case in the country I live, where the children later in life "switched back" to the gender they were born in. And even if they want to, they still are free to do so, there are no treatments that make this impossible until they are older.

Just what I want you to consider is, that it is hard enough for those children to be confronted with such things instead of just playing normally. They feel, that they are different A LOT. Just imagine being that young and feeling that you are the only person on the whole wide world that seems to be like you are. Seeing posts like this on the front page is the reason, why my girl feels sad and lonely a lot, because people don't know how it has to be for her. It is no easy way for her to go, but at the moment it is the only way for her to be happy and to live just like any other child and like any child should. I try my best to support her, but I am scared, because she already realised, how hateful people can act towards her, just because she feels like a girl. And still, she stands her ground at this young age.

Ok, you can now go on to funnier posts and I really hope, there will be some cat tax right after this post for you.