tldr: Basically, title.
couldn't go to the wedding because my family didnt want my transness to confuse people and take attention away from the bride. ans my family doesnt want me to come to group functions anymore until i take on the burden to make up with my hateful father. guess im getting closer to the cutoff family time but good lord am i tired of this
So i was out of contact with all of my family starting 2018, left my home state of idaho where i grew up in 2020, and have a rocky relationship with my mom and sisters since coming out in '23 to put it generously. Still zero contact with trump loving dad since 2018. Counsins/extended family all live in a different state, and the ones around my age are cool with me but ive never had a close relationship with them cuz of distance. So i havent actually been around my family since ive transitioned due to safety concerns about going back to idaho. Only my mom has bothered to come out and visit me since ive transitioned.
Anyway
when i got the invitation a few months ago from my counsin and i chatted with her, it seemed like she really wanted me to go. She seemed excited to get to see me since its been so long. My parents also told me they werent planning on going. So my husband and i made plans to go, then come a month before the wedding and my mom calls me. She tells me
they are going now, and that i shouldnt go because my dad (whose now gonna be standing?!) and most extended family seeing for the first time since transitioning will: "steal all the attention from the bride", "cause a commotion being in a dress", and my presence would "disrupt the ceremony between the couple because people could get confused". My mom basically went off about
my how transition will be nothing but a disruption for family functions and that i shouldnt expect to be invited to anymore until i specifically take on the burden of talking to my father.
Gotta love being their child and being the one responsible for their issues...
Since then,
no one in my family has had contact with me. Even my cousin when i reached out to her since the wedding, but that ones a bit more understandable. the wedding was two days ago and the rest was a month ago. Still nothing. This is the fourth wedding i have had to miss because im trans. Two missed because i couldnt safely return to idaho, and one because my friend lives in but fuck middle of no where tennessee. (all old pretransition cis friends, Tennessee friend is the only one left of those funny enough). I dont blame my counsin for this, i blame my family for putting all this bs on her while shes trying to plan and enjoy a wedding.
i genuinely feel like they wanted to deny a potential affirming experience or make it all that much harder to have one if i did show up. god forbidden a trans woman shows up and feels good, gets told they look pretty in a dress, or pushes back against others preconceived ideas of how ill look, present, or act. But theyll deny it if i confront them, i guarantee it. First they take my childhood, and now i feel like theyre gonna do the same shit everytime they get chance for my adulthood.
Im so so tired of never really getting any affirmation or acceptance in my life. i dont know what to do, i feel like i have no one.
even the family that would accept me doesnt care enough to stand up for me. all my friends that did accept me after coming out have abandoned me since i couldnt make their weddings or left after i went too much into my trans experience and they got uncomfortable. every chance someone has had to make me being trans a problem they have fucking taken it and put it all on me. im audhd and traumatized as fuck from abuse so i cant just easily make new friends, go to support groups, or push against these people in my life. thank god i have my husband and one friend left or i wouldnt be able to put up with all this, but it doesnt make it hurt any less.
like im just a girl idk what else to do here. I just wanna live and do normal person and woman things please. These experiences make it so hard for me to accept that i am a real and valid woman.