An Alabama couple were ardent Trump supporters. Then their trans son told them he wanted to die

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transgender-children-trump-election-b2651380.html

43 comments

  1. >**Fisher and her husband did not realize how Trump’s win could greatly impact their child’s life.**

    >The couple were ardent Trump supporters. They had a Trump/Vance sign on their front lawn, a Trump bumper sticker on their car and **attended most of the GOP meetings in Hoover**, Alabama, where they live. They’d tried to take their son with them but they wouldn’t go.

    Oh fuck off. These aren’t casual Fox watchers who showed up and voted whoever had an “R” on election day.

    There’s no excuse for being completely ignorant about your candidate when you’ve got the yard sign and go to the meetings.

  2. “Fisher and her husband did not realize how Trump’s win could greatly impact their child’s life.”

    Are you fucking kidding me?

  5. I hate reading these kinds of stories. Mostly because I can’t finish reading them without crying, and it takes me a while to climb out of that funk.

  6. They were fine with other people’s kids wanting to die, but that changed when it was their son.

    They’re welcome to fuck right off!!!

  7. They should’ve seen the impact earlier judging by the article, but they voted Harris in the end and did pull their son out of school (where he was targeted by bullies and the system) to accommodate him, so I do think they are genuinely attempting to change, and that’s obviously welcome.

  9. If you actually read the article, the parents had a change of heart when the kid revealed their suicidal thoughts and voted for Kamala Harris in the end. It’s frustrating that a lot of people only think about what directly affects them and their family when voting, but I also don’t think it does any good to shame these parents when they ultimately came around and did the right thing. We need more stories like this, not less. 

  11. These ardent supporters of trump never considered the impact it would have on their own son. It took their own son to open their eyes to the suffering of others.

  12. C‘mom, folks, please read to the end.

    “When she and her husband found out about the pact, they immediately helped contact the other parents involved, removed all the firearms from their house, pulled their son out of his school and enrolled him in online classes. Fisher started going into her son’s room every 30 to 45 minutes to make sure he was still breathing.

    She and her husband ultimately voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in solidarity with their son.”

    It’s one thing to say they should have listened to their son sooner. But in the end they did listen to him and stand by him.

    Don’t condemn them for voting for someone they didn’t actually vote for.

  13. A core part of modern day right wing values is the believe that policies will hurt others but not you. They were 100% fine with some other family’s kid not having access to healthcare or getting harrassed for no reason.

  14. I can’t imagine how trans people must feel knowing full well that Trump won by running on an anti-trans platform. It’s heartbreaking.

    Worst part is that the suicide rates for trans minors were already substantially increasing in states with anti-trans laws before the elections. I shudder to think how much worse it will likely get moving forwards.

    And that’s why any Dem trying to place blame on trans rights (hint: Harris didn’t even talk about it at all) for this loss can fuck right off.

  15. The media needs to stop reasoning the behaviors of the abusers in the relationship

  16. There’s lots of kids just like that all around the country, they just get told to shut up and not be trans.

  17. Kinda good to not have judgey blinders on in life when you’re the type to drink poison koolaid then fight about what master cult leader tells you is right.

  19. Typical Republican. They don’t care until it affects them. Feel sorry for their kids.

  20. > The plan had been set since September. The teens hoped their deaths would send a message to conservative lawmakers and stop them from enacting restrictive policies targeting trans youth.

    Unfortunately most conservatives would be very happy with LGBTQ+ people killing themselves, unless it’s their own family member, then it’s 50/50.

  21. Typical, don’t give a shit about anyone else, only care when fascism affects them personally.

  22. Jesus appears to be wearing a dress in the photos at my house.

  23. >Fisher and her husband did not realize how Trump’s win could greatly impact their child’s life.

    They didn’t realize? *They didn’t realize?*

    Fuck all the way off. That poor child, being born to hateful idiots.

  24. This kind of story would have been helpful before the election.

  25. How could these parents not see the harm Trump and the GOP meant to their child. It’s almost like they chose to ignore it because they subconsciously want the child dead

  27. Nancy Reagan was against stem cell research until she learned it held promise for Alzheimer’s treatment

    Dick Cheney was against same sex marriage until his daughter came out as gay.

    You wonder how many times this repeats itself every day. Too many republicans are against something until it affects them personally.

  28. “Oh, it affects MY child? Suddenly I have reasonable views! I used to not give a shit, because I thought only OTHER people’s children would be driven to suicide.”

  29. “It only matters if it affects me personally!”

    Fuck these people.

  30. Conservatives only caring when it affects them, a tale as old as time.

  31. It’s going to be very rough for LGBT people for the next few years

  32. Funny how conservatives only give a shit about other people when it personally affects them. I feel no sympathy for them at all

  35. So it wasn’t enough that Trump and his cronies told them they wanted their son to die, too? Because some of them have literally said that out loud.

  36. I know the article cites one anecdotal incident but Washington State is pretty good overall on most social issues. Id say Western Washington, Western Oregon, Metro California, and Metro Minnesota are all places I could generally vouch for for people to feel safe and be actively protected by the state govt to some degree against federal injustice and tyranny.

    This isn’t a knock to certain places I haven’t listed, I just don’t have some degree of first hand experience to vouch for other blue areas outside of short vacations.

    You can rule out any red state immediately – they are unsafe, dangerous, and generally have lower baselines of living to begin with due to their poor economies and lack of focus on or interest in working class issues.

    So, trans or not, if the state is red, dread it.

  37. Did the couple call the newspaper to brag about their change of heart? How are we hearing about this!

  39. > Fisher and her husband did not realize how Trump’s win could greatly impact their child’s life.

    What pair of oblivious fucking assholes.

  40. Typically selfish republicans. Problems don’t exist until it affects them personally.

  41. We don’t have the time *or* the patience to wait for personal harm to convert these sadistic, evil fuckers, one by one, back to sanity and reason.

    This is NOT a warm, feel-good, family-centric story. It’s just another reminder that the apocalypse has already come, and it’s stupid fuckers like *these* who brought it.

  42. Republicans only ever realize the implications of their hateful desires once they’re personally affected.

  43. This article just shows how sociopathic Trump Republicans are. No ability to empathize or understand unless it’s literally their own immediate family involved. “Fuck everyone else but me.”

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