Just want to get this off my shoulders: I’m not enabling this crap.
I’m glad he feels happy, and he is family so of course I still love him. But it is because I love him that I cannot in good conscience entertain this dysphoria.
Someone with a long prior history of mental illness announcing they are trans is like pouring gasoline onto a tire fire.
I imagine things are going to be very contentious, but absolutely I have to stick to my guns on this one. Not a fun position to be in.
Just don't change the way you treat him one bit, no matter how much he protests. That's what all this crap is about, it's the same basic behavior pattern as homosexuality, pathological lying, and co-dependent addiction. They're trying to use this 'condition' as a means of controlling the behavior of those around them. The more those people indulge this destructive behavior pattern, the worse it gets.