Be mindful when talking about chosen families. Not all queer + trans folks have that, or a blood family.
You know. We so often talk about chosen families in queer + trans communities. But lots don't have that either. It's hard being different
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Thank you. I feel this a lot, especially from constant alienation by cis queers in my community.
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Im not the OP. For me, its more complex than either preference or lack of opportuity wrt not having chosen family &/or family of origin.
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The framework of your question assumes things abt family & what shapes choices wrt family. It leaves out things like exclusion & abuse, frex
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My experience of both kinds of family is deeply shaped by those things. Makes it difficult to answer your question beyond: its complicated.
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I think it depends on the kind of answer you want to make room for. If you ask is that because of X or Y, there's no room for other things.
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& often, in my experience, if you do not make room for things you had not considered with an open ended query, you don't hear about them.
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Makes sense. I can tell you more about my own sense of things that contribute to folks not having chosen families, if you want.
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TW abuse So in my experience intimate partner violence isolates people, estranges them from close ties, & creates fractures in communities.
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TW abuse Makes it hard to sustain queer chosen families that exist. & many queer chosen families are built w/exes, abuse disrupts that too.
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