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Despite living and identifying as a woman for the better part of her life, trans daughter Jennifer Gable, 32, was made to look masculine, even at her own funeral.

Following a sudden death, Gable’s parental units cut her hair and garbed her with a man’s suit for her casket viewing at a Twin Falls funeral home. The Idaho family, then, became the object of friends’ criticism for erasing their daughter’s identity.

RawStory reports:

“I am disgusted,” one of her friends, Stacy Dee Hudson, said. “A great and dear friend’s mom went to the funeral today. It was not closed casket. They cut her hair, suit on. How can they bury her as geoff when she legally changed her name. So very sad. Jen you will be missed and people who know you know that you are at peace.”

Meghan Stabler, a member of the Human Rights Campaign’s national business council, told the Herald that the family’s choices obscured the work Gable did to be recognized under the law in her chosen identity.

“Her father erased her identity either though ignorance or arrogance,” Stabler said. “But who knows what the parent was going through?”

The Daily Mail reported that friends also criticized Gable’s family in an online guest book.

“She was mutilated and disrespected by her family, and even her obituary is a desperate attempt to make her seem as masculine as possible,” one friend, Lisa Becker, wrote. “To her family — shame on you.”

Photo: Via HuffPost (video screen shot)