Notorious anti-trans activist melts down at school board meeting: "This is insane!" - LGBTQ Nation
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Beth Bourne, a local Moms for Liberty leader, called teachers "f**king idiots" and "brainwashed."

Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern for public comment — shouting about “healthy, whole women!” — scores of district-area teachers got up from their seats and walked out of the meeting.

Bourne went ballistic.

“Ask those teachers to stop interrupting my comment!” she shouted at the meeting chair. “I want my time back! I want my time back!”

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Most of the relationships she spent years forming — as a mom, community member, and university employee — have now dissolved. No one called her on her birthday last month, she said, through glassy eyes filled to the brim with tears once again. Attempts to connect with these former friends — by sending them controversial columns about gender identity, for example — are not received kindly. “We don’t want to hear from you,” Beth said a friend recently told her. “Don’t send us anything anymore,” said another.

    she seems closer to the verge of emotional breakdown than she is to the verge of an insult.

    The mom needs some impartial advice as to why everyone in her life cut ties with her, and why her eldest child being happy is driving her to the point of a mental breakdown.

    Just another opportunity to post about the missing missing reasons.

    EDIT: Quotes are from the sacbee article linked elsewhere in the comments.

    • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
      11·
      6 days ago

      Stupid people just can’t quite handle the reality that treating real life conversations like their Internet echo chambers make you annoying even to people who agree with you, much less the people in your lives watching you try and hurt others.

    • dkppunk@piefed.socialEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Mothers like this tend to dig in and hold their ground when people tell them they are wrong about their children. For them, it’s not about love, it’s about control. They need their children to fit into these perfect little boxes they have constructed in their minds and if we don’t fit, it’s because there is something wrong with us or society has twisted us.

      Source: I saw my mom do similar to my younger sibling. Now, my mother does not have a relationship with either of her children and I’m working on healing the damage she did between sibling and me. I’ll always stick up for sibling over mom as long as she behaves this way.

      • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        They need their children to fit into these perfect little boxes they have constructed in their minds and if we don’t fit, it’s because there is something wrong with us or society has twisted us.

        I also detect notes of how the world will think of them that THEY raised a child that turned out to be trans or gay. The actual happiness of the child isn’t a factor, but the appearance of the child’s happiness is, because that’s a reflection of the parent.

        I’ll always stick up for sibling over mom as long as she behaves this way.

        Good for you! It’s a hard step and people don’t always seem to understand how a child can cut ties with a parent. They never what those parent/child relationships are like leading up to going no contact with parents. Also, protip: she’s always going to behave that way.

        The first thing I thought of from looking at the parent’s situation is how hopeless it is. Second thing was how Lily seems to be doing fine. Third was how similar to the ending of American Beauty the parent’s situation is.

        • dkppunk@piefed.socialEnglish
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          4 days ago

          100% agree with you. Many of these parents just see their children as a reflection on their own character and morals instead of being proud of the person they raised.

          Good for you! It’s a hard step and people don’t always seem to understand how a child can cut ties with a parent. They never what those parent/child relationships are like leading up to going no contact with parents.

          Yep, I’ve had folks tell me I’m a bad daughter for not having a relationship with my mother. They lost their wonderful mom to cancer and would love to have their mom back so obviously I should want to have my mom in my life, but they fail to realize that not all moms are wonderful like their own was. Even after explaining my circumstances, I’ve still heard “but she’s your mom and you should talk to her” like that means I have not tried for a decade to talk to her about how she makes me feel and that I am required to put up with her wreaking havoc on my mental health.

          Also, protip: she’s always going to behave that way.

          I’m fully aware of this unfortunately. She knows the things she has to do to have her children in her life, I’ve flat out told her what to do. She refuses to do something as simple as apologize, so she runs around telling everyone that her kids hate her for no reason. It’s the missing missing reasons factor 🤷‍♀️

          My relationship with my sibling means far more to me than my relationship with my mother anymore. Sibling is a dork and can tease me, but ultimately is supportive and doesn’t judge me the way mom does.

          • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            like that means I have not tried for a decade to talk to her about how she makes me feel and that I am required to put up with her wreaking havoc on my mental health.

            Yeah. And it really does take that long. Usually the kid has to get out in the world and start swapping stories with other people, or get caught doing some damned Learned Behavior around normal people. After that the negotiation phase with the parent, and after that fails over and over again it’s no contact. It’s why I really hate the stories of people who got parentified…that’s their whole life spent and the one constant is you can’t get time back.

            she runs around telling everyone that her kids hate her for no reason. It’s the missing missing reasons factor 🤷‍♀️

            I wish it wasn’t so common for it to need articles that well written to exist. Parent attempts to capture kid in a false dichotomy, and when they find a way out and escape control, they parent tries to control the narrative. In the happy ending the kid loses their parent.

            Congratulations keeping some family.