{"id":1386,"date":"2015-12-08T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2023-05-29T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:35:14","slug":"trans-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/trans-homeless","title":{"rendered":"Trans, Homeless, Preteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a trans activist friend of mine, apparently, in New York City, the average age at which homeless trans youth become homeless is 13.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Average!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;ve written before about how parental love isn&#8217;t exactly as unconditional as conventional belief would have you think. But even knowing that, it&#8217;s so pathetic that parents would kick out kids who are in middle school or younger for any reason really, but still so much more mindblowing that it&#8217;s about something so ridiculous as the kids not acting the part of the gender their genitals tell them to be. How fucking petty and heartless can you goddamn get?!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet these parents think they love these kids, too. I&#8217;ll bet lots of people think that. I guess the mere idea that they might not despite some clear evidence to the contrary here is just too much. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a trans activist friend of mine, apparently, in New York City, the average age at which homeless trans youth become homeless is 13.5 years. Average! I mean, I&#8217;ve written before about how parental love isn&#8217;t exactly as unconditional as conventional belief would have you think. But even knowing that, it&#8217;s so pathetic that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/trans-homeless\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trans, Homeless, Preteen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estrogen","category-what-the-hell","category-youth-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}