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You’ll notice, Mom and Dad, that last week in court, the judge didn’t say a thing about my hair.
Not even close, actually, so he probably didn’t even think about it.
Does he share your values? As K2S0 of “Rogue One” said, “it’s high. It’s very high.”
The geography certainly says so. But even he seems to understand that hair should not say anything about me having as much time as possible with my toddlers.
Mom, we’ve had this conversation I think twice before. Definitely once, and that is all that should have been needed.
Dad, since we’ve never talked about it before, look at some of the heroes of the scriptures. Some of the most powerful missionaries had hair that went a ways.
This is not to mention the beards that prophets fashioned for years.
This also isn’t to mention that a certain Someone had long, flowing hair (and a beard).
Styles come and go. And that’s all they are: styles.
This next part, I know may be tough to here, but if there’s anything that I’m not changing about myself, it’s my current hair length. In fact, I’m taking it definitely past my shoulders and probably down my back a good length.
That I’m going the opposite way with it is conclusive. So much so, that (as I told Mom) I arranged a special haircut in February to enable my hair to grow out as optimally as possible.
What I don’t think I’ve told you is that I struggled with gender dysphoria, which is “a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth,” according to Dictionary.com. So I’d think you are glad that I have reclaimed manhood, as that and hair length are in no way the same (those missionaries and prophets and that Someone were all males …).
I write this with love but a hope that you will respect my boundaries. My hair is my own and not yours in any way.
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