As a background to this, I came out to my mom as transgender about a month ago but I'm sure she was suspecting it far prior to this. In the past year, she's been using (full gender-specific birth name (FGBN)) instead of (shortened non-gender-specific form of birth name (SN)) to refer to me far more often, and I do suspect she's been encouraging ( Read more... )

I'm coming out as FtM to R, my husband's brother with whom we live, and I've written a letter for him to read and then talk to us about. I'd love some feedback on it before I give it to him. Here's some background for you who don't know it:

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Sent my dad (and a slightly edited copy to my mom) this last night.

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I haven't sent it yet and I'm going to wait a bit until I get feedback from friends and et cetera on how to word it.

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I am writing here because i have an almost nonexistent trans support system. While most of the people i hang around with know i am trans, they behave with me as male and the fact that i was assigned female at birth has not bothered them. I am also at blame for putting up a front. I have never wanted to be judged as trans but only as male. The only ( Read more... )

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 Alright, I'm going to try to make this as short and sweet as possible. No rambling, Ben!!

I'm a 21 y/o pansexual biomale, and I consider myself genderqueer. I've been wanting to start hormone therapy, but not to become a female/woman. What I'm most interested in is bridging the gap between man and woman, and to an extent, male and female. Right now ( Read more... )

I've written 2 letters.  One is to my mother who I verbally came out to about a month ago, but I feel there is more to be said that she will not discuss with me. The second letter is to friends who I don't see very often. I will have other letters to write, but these are what I have right now. Tell me what you think please.

( Mom's Letter )

A response to this girl's Coming Out Letter from an Uncle...

[old Name],
Here is my response to your e mail: Unless someone has walked a mile in another person's shoes they have no right to judge. In light of that statement B and I hold no judgement or contempt for you. We will NEVER turn our backs on you. You are blood and we love you no ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, I'm new to this community. I plan to get a meta this summer and so obviously need letters. My therapists are willing to write me one, but have never written one before and so would like a template to go off of. They already have Dr. Meltzer's directions on what should go into the letter. I went through all the posts here and copied ( Read more... )