What Pride Means to Me

forgive me for suspending my snark, but the Gender Critical Hit Squad came for me this week and I’m feeling soft ok

A few weeks ago, my mother started stressing me out about my forthcoming wedding - I assume it won’t be the last time she does so. She wanted reassurance, I guess, that I really want her there. Our relationship has often been very difficult for both of us, less because I felt rejected by her (I never have) but because I felt deformed, mutilated by the f…