My husband became my wife and it’s made me love her more - article in the Metro

[stumbledin]

Not posting to recommend reading but just to show how the main stream media continues to act as the PR arm of transactivists.

And I very much doubt that they will be offering equal space to women who have a very different view.

metro.co.uk/2020/05/16/husband-transitioned-become-woman-12698572/

Yeah, I can't really see most editors going for "my husband decided they wanted to be my wife and it ruined my life and those of our children" as a pitch. Metro in particular has form for this though, I think their staff leans very young.

This is such a sad article. Someone male is "sensitive and understanding" and has always wanted to paint their nails and go shopping, and the only way they feel able to do that in this world is as a woman. Zoey now feels trapped between two worlds. The wife still sounds unhappy, and the children have learnt that all that matters is Zoey's happiness, which, as someone who grew up in a household with parentification, set alarm bells jangling for me.
All round sad.

This is the Metro though. Very ‘on side’ they are. I only pick up a free copy to dry my wellies on.

I remain confused as to why painting nails in particular always comes up in these articles. Goth and emo dudes have been painting their nails for decades, have middle aged males not noticed?

I read recently that the Metro was going to close, or am I mixing them up with someone else. I suppose they could always identify as still being open. 🤷🏻‍♀️

They only thing they do worth reading is the What I Rent series.

My 17yo son always has painted nails. And he does face masks and waxes his eyebrows. He’s straight btw, just happens to like these things.

This couple are really putting themselves (and their two kids) out there on social media at the moment. I won’t say any more because having a Mumsnet thread about themselves will definitely be seen as an achievement. Good luck to the both of them. Totally in love. Totally not affected by having a husband become a wife; a Dad become a Mum. Kids all completely fine with it. Nothing to report. Happy Families

I can't really see most editors going for "my husband decided they wanted to be my wife and it ruined my life and those of our children" as a pitch.

That might be a bit too close to real life, 'dog bites man' style'.

Are there ever any articles like "My wife became a man, and now I have a new best friend to got to Halfords with"?

Because the real life story would be "my wife became a man, and obviously I divorced her because I love boobs and men have needs you know".

In reference to their two children - “From the beginning they believed that Zoey’s happiness was all that mattered” - says it all really.

@Melroses raises a very good point - has anyone seen an article where a wife becomes a man??

Yes but in that instance the man also switched.

Is there an Amanda Jette Knox shaped gap in the trans cheerleading market? Hope this woman understands what she's letting herself in for.

The wife still sounds unhappy

Which part of the article made you think that? As she sounds pretty happy to me, sounds like she's still in love with her

“From the beginning they believed that Zoey’s happiness was all that mattered”

Ouch. Totally normal child parent relationship there...

The metro makes pretty good paper mache.

It also holds the neighbour's cat poo which I'm always having to clean out of my garden, adequately.

That's about the best I can say for it.

I've seen this couple talk about the father's relationship with the children before. Zoey asked the children if they would be ok with Zoey doing all this, and the child said that they wanted Zoey to do whatever made Zoey happy.

When I was 11, my father had an affair and asked me what I thought he should do. I told him he should do what made him happy, because I was a child and had no grasp of the adult world. He left my mother for his girlfriend and I was utterly torn apart blaming myself for years.

Some people have no concept that parenting is not creating little dolls that say affirming things whenever you ask them about your adult lives. I give no shits at all about this couple's relationship with each other. But, based on their own testimony, I think they have been shitty parents and I hope their kids manage to make it to adulthood as undamaged as possible.

Face masks, shopping days and painting nails.....things that are daily occurrences for women with small children, obviously.
I wonder, does it ever occur to these people they may just be plain bored, because life with small kids is often tiring - very tiring- and boring?

I feel for this woman. She doesn't come across as the sharpest tool in the box, and she fallen into the worst trap that a trans widow can fall into.

If you monetise your ally status and your glitter family, you have to slavishly live your life by the rules in order to be accepted. No dissent or independent thought is tolerated.

It's a terrible position to end up in, having to pretend to be happy all the time.

What else can she say?

If she says she is unhappy, disgusted, confused, mourning... then she will be painted as the worst of the worst. Remember metro is way-o wokey on the wokeometer. Has been for a while now.

A bit like that TV presenters wife when he ‘came out’ (Uhuh?) and she was all smiles and ‘how brave he is’ ‘we are a family’ ‘stand together’ etc etc etc. Then he scampered off to a bachelor pad.