A man has taken to social media to reveal that he told his wife to "get over herself" after she refused to accept their transgender son.
Three days ago under the Reddit username Throw_away4679, the unnamed father wrote a post in which he revealed that his trans son first told them that he felt like a boy at the age of eight.
However, his wife was convinced that it was a phase and "believed it was because I wasn't spending enough time with him."
After this, the family went to child therapy and made time for additional bonding, but their child continued to say that he felt like he was a boy.
In the video below, Dwyane Wade opens up about his 12-year-old daughter coming out as transgender:"Our son is 18 and 5 months ago he told us he wants to start his transition and change his name," he wrote. "For years I came to accept that this was something that was going to happen when he got older.
"My wife however is still insisting maybe he's just a tomboy lesbian. I know there's a lot of issues here but I think the main problem for her is that she doesn't want to let go of the 'daughter' she thought she had."
The father went on to write that his wife is now insisting to call their son by his dead name, and keeps attempting to put him off transitioning, but the "final straw" for him came when she tagged their son in baby pictures on social media and wrote "my sweet baby girl".
"I told her I understand it's a lot to adjust to but she needs to get over herself and be there for him because he's the one who needs the support right now," he continued.
"She became very upset telling me I have no idea what she is going through as a mother mourning her child. That somehow it's different for me because I'm the one gaining a son and she's 'losing a daughter'.
"We did not sleep in the same bed that night. It's been tense after that. At least my son has told me she's stopped messaging him constantly but now it's like she's on autopilot.
"I told my sister everything and she thinks what I said was pretty insensitive about what my wife is going through because apparently, it is in fact different for mothers since they have a deeper bond with their child."
The father then asked the people of Reddit if he was being unreasonable for telling his wife to get over herself, and they took to the comments section of his post to support his actions in full.
One Redditor wrote: "[Trans] youth whose family do not support them are at a ridiculously high risk of suicide. Tell your wife that you're sorry losing her daughter is so hard for her, but if she wants to keep her child in her life she needs to figure out a way to be there for him -or at least pretend to be until she goes to therapy and actually is - ASAP."
A second wrote: "NTA - She is only losing a child because she doesn't want to accept the one she has."
Meanwhile, the most upvoted comment on the post simply read: "You are NOT the a**hole."
This comes after this Christian mom was praised for her response to her son coming out as transgender.
