Cher Accepts Transgender Daughter: Could You?

only God has the right to judge, that's between her and her God....

...but it would be really hard - and heartbreaking in a way.

Blood is thick and the relationship need not be severed. Still, a loved ones choice of sin does not end anyones responsibility to speak the truth to them.

Blood is thick and the relationship need not be severed. Still, a loved ones choice of sin does not end anyones responsibility to speak the truth to them.

Hypothetical questions are very difficult to answer. It is my hope I would. I would only hope she would turn out to be a tad better looking than "Chastity" turned out.

And for those who say "no," please don't have children. It's just not right to deny them a parent's love. Being transgender is hard enough as it is WITH loving parents.

I will support my children in anything they do as long as it's not a felony!

Ops, ment to say I could accept it. If you can't accept your kids the way they are, you don't deserve to have any kids at all.

I could "accept" anything my child is. That could include but not limited to, if h/she were to tell me h/she was gay. How pray tell, do you stop loving your child, let alone accepting them?

no i couldn't i think changing your gender is unnatural and just sick.

So what would you do?

i will still love my daughter but i will still disapprove of the sex change.

They're not changing gender, they're changing sex to match their gender.

shut up and just leave me alone

I'm sorry, does the truth make your ears bleed or something?

nope

mothers have unconditional love.

love covers a multitude of sins,let alone gender reassignment

No doubt about it.
It's a ridiculous question even. It's like asking would you rather have a child who is unhappy and insecure throughout their entire life, unable to be who they really are?

Regardless of what my kid is going through, she is still my child. If she became a he, I'd accept it, because I love my kid unconditionally.

He is still her child...Does one refuse to accept a mentally handicaped child, a genital defective child, a less than average child based on the acceptance criteria of the ten-million dollar-a-year private scool you've enrolled them in because the neighbors enrolled their child? No.

This is not a yes/no question. As a parent you accept your child. You don't have to agree with everything they do. You support them to the best of your ability and that is all you can do. I do not agree with sex change operations because I feel that is a form of self-mutilation. To me this means you don't accept yourself as you are, not that others aren't accepting of you. Having a transsexual in the family, I can tell you it doesn't solve their issues with self-image. Many transsexuals commit suicide when the find out that changing their gender physically, didn't fix what was wrong emotionally and spiritually.

Unfortunately, for some people it IS a yes/no question. I have trans friends (and am trans myself, but luckily have better parents) who have been kicked out of their house, forced to leave college, and basically disowned in every other way by their family.

As long as s/he isn't pillaging, plundering, raping, murdering, etc I wouldn't care.

What a freak!

I've agreed with you on several different topics. On this I find you offensive. A real mother doesn't reject her child just because she disagrees with what her child is doing. The love I have for my daughter is unconditional and while I may not agree with everything she does, I never reject her. If my daughter were to go through this I would do everything I could to accept her as a him, because underneath it all she is still my child.
As such, you are a freak.

I would guess that you are not yet a parent?

i'd have no choice,but i'd definitely would be pissed off..why can't you just be gay in your god given body...oh well whatever chaz.....

But you'd find fault with that, too.

no!,that's not true.....i don't understand sex changes not the fact thats she's gay

It is what it is. It is a little bit arrogant to not accept some one for who they are. You don't have to understand what they are going through but you should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they know whats best for them. Unless your a Baptist. Then of course you find them. beat them, deprive them of their life, liberty, property and happiness all in the name of Jesus.

That's not true. I am a Baptist and if my child decided to do this I would accept it. My love for my children is unconditional.

hell yeah...theres nothin wrong...you are who you are.

No....Nope....Uh-Uh...No way....All I would see when I look at Chastity/Chav is a badly mutilated woman.

yes.

It would not be easy, but yes, I would eventually accept it. I love my kids, and I could not stop loving them for a choice that they felt the had to make. Dang! I could not see my son as a girl! The thought makes me laugh. Where the heck would he find shoes for his feet? OMG! The toes hanging off the dang shoes! He'd have to wear pantsuits, I guess, because the shoes would be kind of ugly!

"Where the heck would he find shoes for his feet? OMG! The toes hanging off the dang shoes!"

It's really not easy, trust me. Try going into a store saying you need something in an 11 wide. But, that's what the internet is for.

11 is not really that bad. The wide may be a bit harder, as they usually stick to an 11b in the stores. My son, though, would be about a 14 in female shoes. Maybe a 15. Now that would be difficult to find good shoes in. He would only get old lady shoes, and he would not be happy with that!

Im not sure. I have been raised a Christian, and taught all along that being gay is a sin...but i have gay friends and i think they're great. I wouldn't know how to act.

I have absolutely nothing against them and I'd be cool with a transgendered friend...I have a lot of gay friends :) But I don't think I could raise one...it would be too disorientating for me and I wouldn't quite know how to support them. I'd do my best of course, but I don't think I'd do it very well :(

Her son still looks like a girl to me....albeit a butch one...