Disclaimer: This is my response to the article “My Child Will Not Be Allowed To Be Transgender.” If you haven’t read the article, I highly encourage you to. Not because of the quality of content but so you can see first hand the problem with American people. Of course, people have the right to say and believe whatever it is they would like to, but that doesn’t make it okay.

From the moment you learn you are a parent, you will have an unconditional love for the child that is growing inside of you, the child that you and whomever you love created together. What do I mean by unconditional love? I mean from the day you bring that child into the world, you protect them, you cherish them, you support them, teach them, and overall you be there for them, regardless.

You talk about wanting to be a good mother but do you even understand what that means to a child? I might not be a part of the LGBT community, and can’t even begin to understand the daily hell they go through because of people like you, but I am someone’s daughter and I can say this. If my mother or father did not approve of me because of who I was, their “care packages,” and “them making me my favorite foods” wouldn’t mean a damn thing to me.

Would you rather your child die than be who they are meant to be?

Let’s talk about that for a minute because I don’t think you understand what you just preached to the world wide web. Did you know about 40% of LGBT youth attempt suicide? Those are children. Children. They are people who are trying to be exactly who God made them to be. God makes no mistakes. God accepts all. God loves everyone. I’m not sure what you were taught, but it’s sad that you were taught to not accept all for who they are. Also, a quick side note, your disclaimer of “well transgender people are still my friends I just don’t support them” is extremely pointless. Who wants a friend that doesn’t support them?

It’s because of people like you that transgender people don’t feel comfortable in the skin they’re in. It’s because of people like you that children fear telling their parents about their decision. People like you are born into a comfortable skin, surrounded with privilege. I’m really not sure which part of your article disgusted me more, the fact that you are so close minded to people (especially your children) being who they are, or the fact that you think it’s a “mental disorder” that can be cured with treatment.

Tell me, are you really so shallow to spend your day writing negative statements about a group of people and a hypothetical situation.

Would you like your children to one day read what you wrote and feel proud that you’ve done nothing but shelter them and disapprove of anything other than what’s in a book written many, many years before civilization.

You recently wrote another article stating the fact that you are allowed to have an opinion. Sadly, you’re not wrong. You wonder why people are so angry, but I’m confused as to what you think would come from writing such negative statements about a community who has fought with everything in them to be who they are. So sure, you can have your opinion, and you can pay for therapy for your children, or whatever else you wish to do.

While you’re doing that, I’ll be loving and supporting my child’s every decision. Whether they want to be a boy or a girl, whether they want to be blue or green, whether my little girl wants to play football or my little boy wants to do dance. They’ll have 110% of support from me, and I feel a sense of pity that your children won’t be able to say the same.