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Okay so, the call started off with getting deadnamed, which destroyed all hope I had for the rest of the call, but! My mom corrected herself when she used the wrong pronouns without me having to say anything, this has never happened before, last time she saw me, it's wasn't even 50/50 on if she'd get it right at all, and she wouldn't correct at all, but tonight she did!! My dad has been pretty good with pronouns lately, not perfect but he at least would correct himself most of the time, but tonight he didn't get it wrong even once!!!!

However; the thing they would both do all the time that had started getting to me was using non-gendered words for me, like "child", but never actually acknowledging that I'm a girl. It beats being actively misgendered any day of the week, but after 2 years of being out to them I had more or less given up hope of them ever actually seeing me as a girl, as their daughter.

But tonight my dad finally said it, he said "our daughter" when he was passing the phone back to my mom. I'm their daughter!!!!! They finally said it!!! Even if it's gonna take my mom longer to get there, it's really happening. I don't think I can really explain how incredibly happy it made me, beyond that I was only barely able to keep my self from crying before the call ended.

It's been 2 and a half years since I came out to them, and today (just before 6 months on hrt as well) is the day I finally feel like my parents are starting to actually see me as me. I do still need to tell them I'm on hrt, but after hearing that, after being told I'm their daughter, I feel so much more confident that is not going to turn into a fight.

I feel bad that I left these asks (there are others I'll spare you posting) in my inbox. You went through the five stages of grief in real time.