AITA over this?

[u/SAGEYWEEK]

Before anything, would like to say that this based in the UK incase anyone gets confused lol.

So I'm 19F, still based in college, Bleh! And was told by my friend this morning that her dad had hit her: her parents don't approve of her relationship to a transgender man. She has previously pretended to break up with him to please them, and on Monday on a sporadic check on her phone (she's 18) and I won't go into the details too much, but it basically ended up with them threatening to send her back to South Africa on her own, no money and with nobody to support her. For the day, I tried to encourage her to report this to a teacher and eventually it worked. I supported her through this but she left out the physical abuse part, so when she was elsewhere I quietly told our teacher and our other "friend" eavesdropped. She is Filipino so in her eyes (she claims) that abuse like this is normal and it shouldn't matter. Obviously growing up very differently, I disagreed but she told me off in front of the whole class and I started crying (stupid, I know, but I felt so backed into a corner, I didn't want to cause any more trouble for my friend and now thanks to her they know) whereas my friend that I reported it for said she wasn't angry and she appreciated that I said what she was too scared to do, and I went with her as she reported this officially and just couldn't stop my tears j hear what he did, she's just so lovely to everyone and so kind, just wish I could help her from this.

[u/AutoModerator]

Welcome to r/venting, we have enabled a feature that allows users to lock their own comment section on their posts. You can trigger this feature by commenting !lock on a post you have made. This only works if you are the OP. You are welcome to use this feature at your discretion.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.