I told my dad that I have another name the other day.

[liza@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate
Option 1: how nice. Thank you for sharing with me. Which name would you like me to use my dear child?
Option 2: calling 3 rabbis to start reading to you what are the duties of a good Jewish man according to the pact god made with Abraham and offering to host you in the synagogue to help you just not the help you want

[the_cjuty@chaosfurs.social]

@enbypirate I guess he reacted okay to good. Worried he didn't

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@Liza neither one of them but option 2 sounds.. kinda funny

[liza@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate its what I got and lasted almost 2 weeks until some blocking numbers were done

[faithisleaping@anarres.family]

@Liza I almost asked a former Bible study leader to help me navigate my gender feelings. I’m very glad I didn’t. Pretty sure that’s about how that would have gone.

@enbypirate

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@Liza what the actual fuck? This doesn't sound like a humanly reaction and more like a Monty Python Sketch
Good thing you blocked them!

[liza@lgbtqia.space]

@faithisleaping

Unrelated but funny cuz my english is stupid but funny: I keep reading your name here as Faith, purple heired feminist as if you are an heir to a gran witch (not wizard. learned it the other night) or something

@enbypirate

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@faithisleaping @Liza the best choice I made as a 9 year old kid was not to go to communion (this thing were catholic kids become part of the community)...

[liza@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate yeah, it gotta enter the hall of fame of stupid parental reactions

[low@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate @faithisleaping @Liza I had the option not to go?

[faithisleaping@anarres.family]

@Liza I can work with that.

@enbypirate

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@faithisleaping @Liza can you transform people into toads?

[faithisleaping@anarres.family]

@enbypirate @Liza Sadly not. I’m in the wrong discipline for turning the frickin’ frogs gay.

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@faithisleaping @Liza if you're an Evocation witch you could nuke em with a fireball

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@low @faithisleaping @Liza what do you mean?

[low@lgbtqia.space]

@enbypirate @faithisleaping @Liza I had to go to communion as a kid, that's what I meant.
I didn't like it, never felt any connection to any kind of god, but did go there anyway.

(I don't know what my mother would've done anyway, if I didn't want to go, after all, she wanted to become a religion teacher)

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

@low @faithisleaping @Liza aaaahh okay.
Well I got lucky. I was born into a catholic family but my parents became estranged from religion after me and my sister were born and are quite liberal. So they gave us a choice.
Both of us didn't go.

Edit: we still got baptized and that's something you can't reverse. Sadly.

[the_cjuty@chaosfurs.social]

@enbypirate now I am in suspense. Wie hat er reagiert????

[liza@lgbtqia.space]

@faithisleaping
It could have been interesting, if you ended up going to the Bible leader, to compare insane notes
@enbypirate

[enbypirate@lgbtqia.space]

My dad was pretty chill. He said "Okay" and that was that.

I just told my mum and that went.. pretty wild.
She asked if I'd make that official. I said "I don't know, cause cops and the residents registration office would automatically know that).
She then wanted me to be open about her doing mistakes and I'm like "Yeah that's okay, but I expect that you do it better". She also wants some "Time to think about it" which I find weird. Like.. really weird.
And when we said goodbye she called me by my old name and I was like "Hey please call me Luka" and she refused to do so.
And now I'm pissed. Like very, very, very pissed.
Again, I won't talk to her until she says she's sorry. And I will not tolerate ANY mistakes made by her from now on.

Edit: If that would have been the parents of a teenager I work with I'd say "Do you want to stay there? If not we call child protection and you can stay at another place until we talked about that together"