[family drama][CW: talk of a pro-lifer] Oh. Oh no.

TFW you're very pro-choice and get to find out the hard way that one of your own siblings is aggressively pro-life. RIP that relationship

oof. that's a closer relationship than the ones I have to deal with from opposite sides of the political spectrum

we got along so well as bitties, but she definitely grew into the kind of person I typically hate on. I also found out she supported Trump

My head hurts

Yes, there are a lot of Trump supporters on my dad's side of the family, and I've been gradually cutting most of them out.

I sure did have to get up and leave the room when certain family members made transphobic comments during their last visit with my dad! And make a note never to let those family members stay with me, because I'm the only cisgender person in my household!

my roommates deserve to feel safe in their own house. I'm slowly drilling nonbinary pronoun use into my mom, even though I have to correct her a lot, and my roommate's okay with that, but people who are willfully transphobic are not allowed over.

I am afraid to ask how many pro-life people there are on that side of the family, because I know I'll end up full of rage and cutting off half my cousins.

Ugh...I feel you... I already got a lot of shaming from almost that entire side of the family (my siblings have a different dad) because I'm the lone non-cishet, non-Christian, non-literally anything that very southern biblebelt residential family believes in

Their entire checklist of who shouldn't be allowed to exist, I basically check off everything

Trans? Check. Nonbinary? Yep. Seen as female by them while dating females? Oh, they hate that.

I cut off a cousin over Trump. He was basically my twin growing up. It sucks.

It really does. I think that's why finding this out is feeling like a blow to my mental state. I wanna just go curl up in bed. She was my best and only friend for years, and was always so aggressively protective of me. We had each other's backs through everything

We lost contact for almost ten years, and only recently started talking regularly again

Oof, yes. I'm lucky with my immediate family; when my dad was alive he told me he doesn't care who his children date as long as we're happy, and my mom knows I'm bi/ace. And I have such a good queer household. One nonbinary roommate, one ace and probably-nonbinary-but-switching-pronouns-sounds-tiring roommate

But my extended family on Dad's side is yikes.

So it basically feels like... getting a very missed thing back in my life, just to have it ripped right back out of my hands?

I'm so sorry you got that back only to have it taken away!

Your immediate family sounds wonderful

I do want to try talking to my sister about it. Maybe it's a case of her only knowing what her immediate surroundings teach her, and. Well. She lives in Alabama, so...

I won't get my hopes up, but I do want to at least try once I'm feeling less... /Gestures

Thank you guys. I definitely didn't want to head into a doctor's appointment while still trying to wrap my head around this. And shoving my thoughts somewhere usually helps

curls around

oof, that's a hell of a blow, I'm sorry

I'd always suspected the odds, thanks to how their aunt is. And their dad.

It sucks, but hopefully there's room for her to wake up to the hard facts on why it's more cruel to be pro-life