I wish my parents had the same reaction as my sisters

June 21st, 2007 • 5 comments Transgender

I didn’t plan on telling anyone in my family until I actually started to take hormones.  It’s not that I didn’t want to tell them, it’s just that I remember how my parents first reacted when I told them.  I didn’t want to go through that all over again on a bigger scale.

I was talking to my sisters today, Andrea and Nicole.  They are the youngest of us.  Nicole was telling me that I’ve changed and that she didn’t know me anymore.  Instead of just going along with it like I normally would have, I told her that I was trans.  I’m just at the point where I’m not going to hide it anymore.  I shouldn’t be afraid of who I am, and I don’t have to be afraid.  I’m tired of hiding and walking on egg shells.

So, I told them, thinking they’d call me a freak or think I’m weird or not want to talk to me anymore.  But that’s not how it went at all.  They were both very nonchalant about it, almost as if they already figured it out on their own.  They didn’t really ask many questions, but I guess those will come eventually.

I told them that I was changing my name to Josh and they were both asking me when and then that was it, just like every other conversation that I’ve had with them.

They didn’t judge me, at least not to me, and they both said that they accepted it.  So, I guess that was easy…