The Cult of Transgenderism: My Brother's Crisis of Identity in an America Gone Mad

November 12, 2019

By Lisa

*Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of a 6-Part Series. The author of this true account, a wife and mother of three, wishes to remain anonymous. All names in this account have been changed.

Last year, my brother Josh, a 37-year-old married father with five kids under the age of 9, announced he was becoming a woman.

His wife, in turn, announced that she not only plans to stay married, but that she is "more proud of him" than she's ever been. Actually, she said she is "more proud of her than she's ever been." That's because my brother Josh changed his name to Melissa and now requires everyone to use "she/her" pronouns when referring to him. If the grandparents refuse to do this, they have been threatened with limited access to their grandchildren.

My brother and sister-in-law claim that through several years of therapy, they came to realize the truth: that Melissa was Josh's "true self" all along.

Thus, my tall, handsome, muscular brother began taking strong female hormones that transformed him into a different person. His facial hair stopped growing. He grew breasts instead. As part of his "social transition" he began wearing dresses, wigs, heels, and makeup in public. He will have to stay on female hormones until the day he dies. He refuses to answer to the name Josh now -- the only name anyone's known him as for almost four decades. He says Josh is dead. There was even some type of symbolic "burial ceremony" to say goodbye to Josh once and for all. Unfortunately, I didn't get invited to that. Nor did my parents. No one sent us flowers. No one dropped off a casserole.

Basically, the best way to describe what happens when a loved one decides to swap genders is this: It's as though someone murders your loved one and then the murderer gets extremely angry if you won't let them take the victim's place in your family.

My family and I are now called "transphobic" for not embracing Melissa with open arms.

When I told my brother, "I'm sorry...I love Josh, but I cannot move forward with this new Melissa girl," he simply texted me: "So long then." So long to almost 40 years of relating as siblings. So long to weekly dinners at my parents' home. So long to our kids growing up with their cousins. But I do not fault him or his wife for this. They are victims. They have been brainwashed by the trans cult. It all began with a therapist's advice and ended with lifelong payments to the trans medical machine. There's lots of money to be made in telling people to become the opposite gender. Lots.

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