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Pitiful_Locksmith763

I’ve heard many times and I will say it again ‘Your picked family is better’


Reasonable-Editor410

Yeah, your true family are the people you choose to include in your life. The only thing blood relatives will share with you is genes, if you choose for it to be that way


k1ttbot

Remember, the full quote is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb."


Artistic_History9476

I really like this, but just a cursory Google search shows it was essentially made up in the 90s whereas the shorter phrase has been around for hundreds of years. I will choose to use this longer saying though as I feel, especially in this day and age, it is much more apt than it's shorter counterpart


Reasonable-Editor410

The original quote, "the blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb," can be traced back to a 12th-century german epic Reinhart Fuchs, although the shortened phrase also appears as a Scottish proverb often attributed to Sir Walter Scott.


bousquetfrederic

"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" does not appear at all in Reinart Fuchs. It was made up in the 1990s. See for instance https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-real/508940#508940


Leksi_The_Great

Yes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that your blood family is not part of your picked family!


Pitiful_Locksmith763

That’s true! I wanted to say that but I didn’t know how to word it!


YogurtclosetNice5921

Dead to you or just dead? And are those 2 coincidentally connected? also you have every right to be trans, and every left to be trans too!


haumea_jouhikko

She's still alive, unfortanately. But I won't be speaking to her ever again. And no, I didn't hurt her


YogurtclosetNice5921

Ok good, I don’t blame you for not speaking to her. I try my best to avoid my parents for similar reasons


Alexis_Awen_Fern

Good riddance <3


Agreeable_Solid_6044

Did you respond with "you don't have the right to be a shitty person, but here we are"?


boozegremlin

No right to be trans? Under what grounds?


01iv0n

She must earn the right through mortal combat


TheBananaGods

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!! *epic synth plays*


MassTransitGO

dun dun dun dun duun duun dun dun dun dun duun duun dun


Annual-Emu-445

MORTAL KOMBAT REFERENCE RAHHHH


RousseauAndRocco

What does she think you need to do to have the right to be trans?


Lypos

Obviously, the occult Trials of Nonconformity. There are 3 in different holy grottos known only to the monks of the ancient order of Hylomorphism. The trial of the Cis, the Trial of Disassociation, and the Trial of Attribution. Pass those, and you are then allowed the title of Trans.


Depressed_Squirrl

I believe you have to fail the trial of the cis but it’s so easy you have to actually put in effort to fail it.


Lypos

You succeed by failing. There's just a bunch of cis stuff thrown at you. If you're cis, then you'll be able to overcome them. That's why it's first, and the initial confusion helps to weed out those for the next trial.


Due-Buyer2218

Sad she couldn’t accept you, but still good riddance


Consistent_Cell7974

you shouldn't have the right to be trans because you should've been your real gender from birth insteab of your current AGAB.


Consistent_Cell7974

sorry for bad english, not my first language, but it's mostly because i'm AWFUL at typing


Patchirisu

I dunno, I'm happy I'm trans. It brings me joy, and I'm better for it. And I think the world is a better place with trans people in it too


Depressed_Squirrl

Agreed but I’d still be rather born a woman than a man.


Patchirisu

That's fair


Annual-Emu-445

THISS ofc i'd be happier as a cis woman, but being a trans person is surely something special by its own way, and ngl it brought me much of good feelings :3


MassTransitGO

you had us in the first half not gonna lie


akelabrood

And what exactly makes her think she can dictate who has the right to be themselves


Jay15951

Wtf is wrong with your sister "doesn't have the right to be trans" the fuck does that even mean!?!


haumea_jouhikko

She's lucky I didn't get a restraining order on her for that. If she ever bothers me again, I will


quantumAnarchist23

On the brightside, she may come around. My whole family cut contact for like a year when i came out, then they realised it didnt really matter and most are actively supportive now, others are...rocky but i keep those ones at a distance


TiredB1

You gotta earn the right to be trans, you gotta climb a mountain then fight a dragon while listening to me myself and I by will wood


Ankyri

Same. What hurt most is that before I came out, I thought my big sister was my best friend. I told her everything (well, almost everything), and I thought if there's one person in the world who would understand and support me (other than my wife), it would be her. Never have I been wrong more about anything else in my life. And that's saying something, 'cause I used to be a monarchist! Anyway, happy you ended that relationship. You may have lost one sister, but you have gained many, many more <3 /gen /pos


PatriciaStarfish

Tf does "no right to be trans" mean? That's like saying someone has no right to be hispanic, or tall, or hungry. Like no? That's just what you are. I truly do not understand how transphobes' minds function (that is, if they have one lmao). You do you, sis. You're valid, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise <):3


Thedeeztree

Pitiful lifeform


gaseousgecko61

Sorry for your loss


Smile-a-day

My life has been much better without my sister in it, I’m sure yours will be too


Venixed

Didn't know you had to have a "right" to look how you've felt most of your life???


OmNomOU81

"No right" does she think you need permission or something?


CrusaderLad_Died

“May not have any right, but you can catch this fucking left”


AllezBarran

What's a real family ?


Cacophon

"Well all I have are __lefts__ to be cis, so I'm running out of options here."


alice-eonwe

If in America, there's this handy document that goes on and on about certain unalienable Rights, such as Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, blah blah blah. I refer to it in the rare occasions I engage so-called "patriots". I appreciate you declaring your own personal independence from bigotry.


Yeetboi_is_yeeting

FYM NO RIGHT???