(My messages are blue/purple - nephew's drunk wife are gray - like her soul)
My daughter (19 yo) is trans. She recently moved in with my eldest sister, about an hour away. This was my sister's idea - to get her to a larger city and away from our small town's bigotry.
The above messages are from my sister's daughter-in-law, to me and my replies. She's angry, apparently, because she and her husband (sister's son) helped build a deck on sister's house last weekend and neither my daughter or my sister's youngest son (who still live at home, 25 yo) helped. I was there, dropping off one of my daughter's friends for a visit. I saw that Laufey (my daughter) wasn't helping and I took her aside and asked why she wasn't. She explained that they (my nephew and his wife) make her uncomfortable. I assumed this was because they are simply unpleasant people (but now I know it's because they are transphobic). The wife is a funchtiong alcoholic and my nephew suborns and feeds off of her toxic personality. I love my nephew but, honestly, I limit my exposure to them because of this. As a matter of fact, I hadn't seen them for about a year prior to Sunday.
She started these messages, thanking me for taking her daughter to the movies the day we were up there. All sugary sweet and whatnot. Then launched into how Laufey didn't help them. And I might have interacted differently had she not come in hard with the anti-trans shit. And here's the thing...I had no idea they felt this way. But whatever. I talked to my sis and it seems the daughter in law was properly drunk, like she is about 5 nights a week.
I was shaking with rage by the time I typed my parting shot of "you identify as a cunt". I don't necessarily love that word, but stand by it in this exchange.
Even angry and defending my amazingly brave daughter... that was a zinger, if I do say so myself.
