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A year ago a close family member broke ties with me for being a terf. No fall outs previously.

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BluebellBlueballs · 08/04/2023 23:13

I'm a little sad, exactly one year ago my brother found out I was gender critical and cut me off completely until I 'renounce my views '
He's not transgender or gay but seems to have accepted a woke moral superiority and called me a nazi and bigot for not including males in my definition of women.

I offered to agree to disagree and have a relationship but not talk about this one issue but he wouldn't accept that. Even for my dad's sake who is in his 80s and wants us to make peace.

I won't 'renounce my views ' at his command so despite my offer to agree to not discuss this one issue, we are now estranged.

What do I do? I have no ill intent towards transgender people but I believe in biological sex based definitions of humans and you cannot change sex. I had 2 very difficult pregnancies a man would never have to experience. I have lost my brother to the woke stasi and don't see a way forward.

I have to accept my brother is no longer in my life don't I?

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TheBiologyStupid · 08/04/2023 23:27

It sounds like your brother is being the unreasonable one here - could your dad talk him into accepting your perfectly acceptable suggestion that you and your brother agree to disagree?

My sister, now a naturalised US citizen living just outside Portland, Oregon (!), and I basically have a similar arrangement - although I do push my luck from time to time, when a particularly idiotic example of gender identity ideology makes the news. At least she now accepts that rapists shouldn't be in women's prisons - baby steps...!

kweeble · 08/04/2023 23:18

You can’t change him - try not to let it upset you so much - it’s his choice so he may come round sometime. How could you believe any differently to how you do now?