parental reaction
May. 16th, 2004 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI sent my mother links to those pictures of me in a camisole, and in a dress. She says I look almost just like her sister, except for the pink hair and being younger. This is not all that surprising, I guess. Genes.
We talked about other stuff, too. What she's been doing, what I've been doing, and of course other things related to my transition...
While she hasn't been able to find out if Mickey's still taking photographs, or his and Beverly's general position on trans stuff, let alone me being trans, she did manage to find out the Catholic church's semi-official position on transsexuals from another source - a nun who's involved in the parents-of-GLBTQ organization she's been going to. There's no Official Word from the Pope on it, but it seems that, um, by choosing not to remain a grumpy boy full of self-hate, I've started sinning. It's a sin to start altering the body God gave me, it's a sin to chemically castrate myself, it'll be a sin to have any genital-related surgery. If I marry a man, it'll be a sinful gay marriage because I'm still a man in the eyes of the Church (and they will not change baptismal records). I'm disqualified from joining any holy orders - no Father Peggy or Peggy the Nun, ever. And, amusingly, if I marry a woman, I'm also entering into a homosexual marriage - they'll recognize me as being a woman for that, just so they can be as reactionary as possible.
Not that it matters tome directly, given that I'm about as Catholic as a buggy whip. But how this will affect the opinions of others... that's the hard question.
We talked about other stuff, too. What she's been doing, what I've been doing, and of course other things related to my transition...
While she hasn't been able to find out if Mickey's still taking photographs, or his and Beverly's general position on trans stuff, let alone me being trans, she did manage to find out the Catholic church's semi-official position on transsexuals from another source - a nun who's involved in the parents-of-GLBTQ organization she's been going to. There's no Official Word from the Pope on it, but it seems that, um, by choosing not to remain a grumpy boy full of self-hate, I've started sinning. It's a sin to start altering the body God gave me, it's a sin to chemically castrate myself, it'll be a sin to have any genital-related surgery. If I marry a man, it'll be a sinful gay marriage because I'm still a man in the eyes of the Church (and they will not change baptismal records). I'm disqualified from joining any holy orders - no Father Peggy or Peggy the Nun, ever. And, amusingly, if I marry a woman, I'm also entering into a homosexual marriage - they'll recognize me as being a woman for that, just so they can be as reactionary as possible.
Not that it matters tome directly, given that I'm about as Catholic as a buggy whip. But how this will affect the opinions of others... that's the hard question.