Haven, I agree with Beverley, I wouldn't call that hateful at all. I'm sure anyone would feel awkward and/or scared with that kind of experience. I know I would!
Zylphia, I'm sorry it sounds like your coming out was pretty messed up. One of the things I worry about is a small part of my family getting violent. Pretty sure they will need to find out from a distance. At least though it sounds like you got one of the harder parts over with already. Anticipation and not knowing for sure can really suck.
Catherine, on the first part, the guy thing just is really hard for me to come to terms with right now. If I was at least partially into my physical transition I think it might help but I'm so far from starting right now. I seriously don't even ever appear like I'm trying so I feel like a guy with those feelings which personally feels so awkward.
On the friends thing, a lot of them are very into reading their bible, that's why I chose them as friends. One thing I have always hated were the type that blindly believe their pastors and spout sermon talking points without knowing the scripture to back it up, they just don't understand what being transgendered means. To them it's guys in dresses and falls under being gay, one of the biggest stumbling blocks for christians on understanding these things is they attribute all of it to sex and lusts. I would be surprised if any of them even realized that FTM is part of it. So yeah they'll have scripture but their ignorance will be trying to apply wrong passages and while normally I'd love a good debate I don't know if I can handle that one with them because of the emotional aspect that I'd really just be fighting to keep my friends and the chances of them learning and staying are slim.
There is actually a blog post floating around my head on this topic that I might have to throw at them at some point, which btw I put a link, to my blog, too in my sig finally. It will have some random humor spam reblogs but a large part of it should be my journal entries of sorts. If anyone is interested, fair warning though, most of it is about as cheery as my posts in this thread. So not really at all. It just gives a little more insight into my thought process on all this.
Thank you.
