QT: Why are people not allowed to feel disappointed when someone transitions?

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[–]MezozoicGaygay male 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If that was the case, there would have been some evidence of it before now.

Year ago she said she is proud to be a woman and that she want to play lesbian roles until her death. Then she changed her PR agency, and now she is he and a straight man, not a lesbian anymore. Very weird and very fast change.

To believe that you are "dead." That everything you were prior to yesterday is "dead."

It is very common practice in some protestant smaller churches. In a city I am living, around it there few villages, each have different protestant church (they are called "sects" here, tho).

People there are baptizing only around age of 25-30, sometimes later, after it, all their sins are "lifted away" (so there many criminals among youth there, as they believe they will be forgiven by God when time will come), and now they are accepted by God. They are taking new name, deadnaming considered as a sin as well, they are changing name in legal documents as well, and they are "starting completely new life", and often chosing new profession that pastor chosed for them. And gathering all together every sunday to discuss religion and praising newcommers for few months, giving them extra privileges for first time. Especially heavily it is practiced by Baptists.

So I can see such happening.

[–]worried19 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Makes sense. The religious comparison is apt. When people are born again, their old self is washed away. A lot of them consider themselves new people. They're "baby Christians," like they were reborn into Christianity.

But I think even if you asked a religious person, they'd still admit that they're not literally a new person. Just metaphorically.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some do believe they are completely new person. And in some communities, they act like "historically" they are new people too, as they "forgetting" their past and when anyone speaking about it - it is always like about some other person.

Most such religious practices by orthodox christians and atheists here are called "cults" and "sects". And I can't completely disagree.