I absolutely love this! It’s not about age. It’s about being a decent person. This film shows that compassion and empathy are qualities everyone, regardless of age, should embrace.
If_you_have_Ghost on
The age argument is nonsense. My dad is 75, Catholic, and was brought up conservative but though he had never been a bigot in anyway the trans experience was so far outside his frame of reference he didn’t know what to make of it. However, since retiring he has begun volunteering for The Samaritans and therefore had all the most up to date diversity training. My mum said he came back from the training session about trans folks incensed at what people have to put up with and has since become an evangelical for the trans cause. Age is no barrier to learning!
Kamryn-Blossom on
When I was a trans young person back in the 90s, one of the nicest and most helpful adults I met was a 70+ catholic priest who organized a support group for trans folks. Doing so technically went against official church doctrine, but he told me that in all his years of trying to do good in the world he never met a group so misunderstood and underserved…and so he felt it was his responsibility to help in the small ways he could.
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SyedHRaza on
Bigot can be any age
LunaTheBattleCat on
“Being old is not an excuse for bigotry. Them being a bigoted old person means they lived through every major civil rights movement of the last century and learned *nothing*” -a post I saw earlier today (paraphrased)
Rhapsody-Evelyn on
My grandma and my aunt and uncle have been super supportive. My grandma still has some trouble with the granddaughter part of it, but she’s got my name and pronouns right. My aunt and uncle have never gotten it wrong (And my uncle even asked if it was ok for him to reintroduce me as his niece at my grandpa’s wake. It was in Florida and I was boymoding at the time so I asked him not to, but it was hard for him.
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pie_12th on
Ditto, my grandmother accepted it without breaking stride and never once called me the wrong name. She’ll be 90 this year.
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How nice, genuinely.
I absolutely love this! It’s not about age. It’s about being a decent person. This film shows that compassion and empathy are qualities everyone, regardless of age, should embrace.
The age argument is nonsense. My dad is 75, Catholic, and was brought up conservative but though he had never been a bigot in anyway the trans experience was so far outside his frame of reference he didn’t know what to make of it. However, since retiring he has begun volunteering for The Samaritans and therefore had all the most up to date diversity training. My mum said he came back from the training session about trans folks incensed at what people have to put up with and has since become an evangelical for the trans cause. Age is no barrier to learning!
When I was a trans young person back in the 90s, one of the nicest and most helpful adults I met was a 70+ catholic priest who organized a support group for trans folks. Doing so technically went against official church doctrine, but he told me that in all his years of trying to do good in the world he never met a group so misunderstood and underserved…and so he felt it was his responsibility to help in the small ways he could.
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Bigot can be any age
“Being old is not an excuse for bigotry. Them being a bigoted old person means they lived through every major civil rights movement of the last century and learned *nothing*” -a post I saw earlier today (paraphrased)
My grandma and my aunt and uncle have been super supportive. My grandma still has some trouble with the granddaughter part of it, but she’s got my name and pronouns right. My aunt and uncle have never gotten it wrong (And my uncle even asked if it was ok for him to reintroduce me as his niece at my grandpa’s wake. It was in Florida and I was boymoding at the time so I asked him not to, but it was hard for him.
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Ditto, my grandmother accepted it without breaking stride and never once called me the wrong name. She’ll be 90 this year.