I've been thinking a lot about what I'm going to tell my parents when it comes time to come out to them about being transgender. At the beginning of this week, I decided that this weekend could be a good time to tell them. I'm hoping that I will get a good opportunity to say something and that nerves won't get in the way of me saying it.
I just got done writing a letter to my parents telling them about my feelings. The letter is really more for my sake since I felt it would be easier to know what I'm going to say by having it written down. Basically, I explained in the letter that I have always hidden feelings of being a girl from them. I acknowledged that I think they may have already suspected something when they found my stashes of clothing back in high school and that I was sorry about having lied to them about these feelings. I went on to explain that I am currently seeing a therapist and that we have decided that in order for me to be happy with myself, I must become a woman.
I'm hoping that all will go well for me. My parents have never seemed like the fundamentalist Christian type that would stop loving their child for coming out, but I can't say for sure how they will react. I'm hoping that I can at least help them to understand how I've always felt and that they will still love me after this.
