I just found out my best friend of over a decade is transphobic. I don’t really have more to say. I’m just devastated and feeling really alone.

  • TheOtherJake@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Hopefully they grow as a person and change in time.

    Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian extremist family, it can be hard to rewrite one’s own objective moral code. It takes time and reflection to develop philosophically and emotionally independent of the socially isolated projected/pressured rigid stances that may have gone unquestioned since birth. It took me years of atheism to really take control of my own moral compass independent of any peer pressure and I’m sure I still have room to grow.

    I don’t mean to project myself onto your friend. I just wanted to say, with some substance: Much love! People can change!