Tried to tell my mum today (trigger warning?)

[Kyyn]

Got it into my head to tell my mum while i am staying with her for the weekend.
Dressed up in all my clothes etc, thinking it would help me explain, and waited for her to pick me up. Nervous as hell because my mum is a loud, opinionated lady. I love her to bits, but she's not easy to talk to.

First thing that happens when she pulls up, "Holy geezus [real name]. You look terrible! What, are you a butch lesbian now?"

Gotta say, i know she meant it as a joke, but i was not prepared for that. Crushed my confidence into pieces and now (night time) I've yet to recover. I'm a coward by nature when it comes to confronting people. I dislike conflict to an extreme.

She spent the whole trip home trying to drive to clothing stores to buy me something 'nicer' to wear. Though she hesitated at each turn off... maybe she sensed something was wrong.

Guess it won't be happening this weekend..   

[Edge]

I know I shouldn't find this funny, but... You're absolutely gorgeous. I mean, you probably have bad days like everyone else (I've only seen that one picture), but, man, you're one good looking dude.
Sorry that probably wasn't the point.

[MacKenzie]

 It's really tough for family to think of you as anything else so don't let it get you down. You have to be stern and put your foot down if you want any respect from her or anybody else, eventually when they see it's not just a "phase" they will come around.

Cheer up hun.

xoxo

[Kyyn]

I know I shouldn't find this funny, but... You're absolutely gorgeous. I mean, you probably have bad days like everyone else (I've only seen that one picture), but, man, you're one good looking dude.
Sorry that probably wasn't the point.

Wow, thank you. ^^

[The Passage]

That was like my mother... very opinionated, I mean, I've heard her say some pretty cruel things about trans people before. That changed when I told her about me, on Christmas of all days, and when she realized that her little "boy" really wanted to be a girl, I think she took all of it back. We love each other too much.

She gave me this weird look, though, when I told her - even though I think she already kind of figured it out in her head before I told her - and I'm pretty sure she was in denial for a few months before finally accepting that it's not one of my little phases but the real deal.

Let her ease into it... hang in thur! XD

[Christopher_Marius]

Hang in there, li'l bro. Also I told my parents a while back and they don't seem to understand or take me seriously at all. They still buy me girl clothes and just sort of pretend that I didn't tell them, I guess. Feh.

[justmeinoz]

I started off explaining that I had a medical condition that while not fatal or anything could not be cured, only managed. 
Once I had reassured her that I wasn't talking about Cancer or the Cardiac conditions that run in the family, I could explain things.  I stressed that it wasn't anyone's fault, just something that affected a small percentage of the population,  and that I had been diagnosed with something called GID, Gender Identity Disorder. 

When she asked what that meant, I could talk about fetal brain development etc.
Since then it has just been a matter of her remembering to use the right names and pronouns.  Sometimes a struggle, but I keep reassuring her that I am more content than I have been in my life.

Karen.

[Kyyn]

I started off explaining that I had a medical condition that while not fatal or anything could not be cured, only managed. 
Once I had reassured her that I wasn't talking about Cancer or the Cardiac conditions that run in the family, I could explain things.  I stressed that it wasn't anyone's fault, just something that affected a small percentage of the population,  and that I had been diagnosed with something called GID, Gender Identity Disorder.

I've been doing something similar. I've been talking about Transgenders, and the concept of the brain developing differently etc etc..
She'll talk about it with me, but I haven't got to the point where I can tell her. I already know she wont be impressed, it'll just be at what level that I'm worried about.