My now Daughter just came out as MtF Trans. I was very happy and proud of them to come up with the courage to tell me to say the least.
In a sign of love for her I hung up a trans flag next to my door on a rod. (I bought the flag from a local flag shop the following day) I live right next to an LDS church so I kind of suspected it may stir up some issues.
Guess what it did. 2 days later a group of 3 Teenagers came on my porch and took it down and stole it. Which did not make me a happy camper.
Didn’t call the cops because I knew that I can fix this issue.
I ordered a larger Trans Flag on Amazon and 3 days later I hung that Son Of A B**ch on the side of my home literally facing the LDS church. (If you went out of the entrance you can see it very blatantly)
1 week goes by and a neighbor knocked on my door and told me that she goes to the church and that many members of that church find the flag “”””””””””Distracting””””””””””
And very politely asked me to take it down.
I told them about the situation about my stolen flag. And said she would be willing to pay 3x the original value of the Stolen flag and The one I bought on Amazon, If I just took it down. I said “Would it make your life easier if I took it down?”
She said Yes and said I would ask my daughter what she thinks and you’ll know if I decide to take it down or not in 2 days.
They wished me a good day and left.
So should I take the flag down? Should I leave it up to my Daughter? Or should I say F em and leave it up….
Edit: I want to make it clear I hung up the flag in support of my daughter. I knew it might stir something and thats completely fine with me.
But then the flag got stolen, so to prevent that from happening again I erected a larger one on the side of my home higher on the second story of it. To make sure it didn’t get stolen again. And that’s literally it. The fact that it’s pointing towards the church now I could just claim was unintentional. But for me it’s just an added bonus. Call me a Drama queen and a Pot Stirrer I’ll be the bad guy here IDGAF.
UPDATE:
Talking to my friends and family and seeing this thread has led to the decision of keeping it up.
I had a conversation with my daughter and we both agreed we both wanted the flag to stay up regardless of any potential consequences that may come with it. Not going to make a huge scene out of it.
I usually keep my gate open because I don’t think there would be any issues. But now that some issues have arised I will be keeping it locked for the time being. So that Church lady would have to physically jump over the fence to talk to me again. Which me or my daughter don’t want to.
People have suggested taking the money and leaving it up but I want as least amount of issues as possible with these people. Thank you all for the input!
