I hope this is the right forum.
Anyway I recently came out to my parents over the phone. My mother's actually been super great, and we've been talking more than we ever did before. I haven't talked to my dad yet, but Mom says he's okay, but is worried to talk to me for fear he'll accidentally say something insensitive. They're both coming here for Thanksgiving, so we'll see how that goes. My mother's actually more versed than the average person in her local area on trans* issues, in that she has a read a book by a transgender person and sees us as humans worthy of rights and dignity and all that good stuff, but she knows very little beyond that. She is extremely eager to learn though.
Mom really wants to talk to other parents, preferably parents of someone like me (FTM, transitioning as an adult) but I'm not sure what to do. In my friend group I'm the only transgender person, so I can't put her in touch with anyone directly. Surprisingly, there is a PFLAG group the next town over from where my parents live but it seems to be inactive. I gave her the number for my local group here in Raleigh, but they haven't returned any of her calls.
Can anyone recommend another resource I could give her? My mother lives in a very rural area of southern Virginia, so rural that there is no high speed internet at her home and she doesn't want to look at anything at work because of her bigoted coworkers. So the best things for her would be something she can call on the phone. Books are also good, if she can get them at her local library, but she really wants to talk to someone.
