I figured, I might as well join up because I'm sure I have some questions that could be answered here better than anywhere else.
My name is Alec, but feel free to call me Perseus as per my username.
I can't say my story is a long one, I just know I've never been comfortable in my body as a lady. I never viewed myself as a girl when I was a kid, the only two things that stopped me from being a boy grew clearly obvious as I got older. I was usually impartial to gender definitions and didn't care if people said girl or boy, even with my chest some kids seemed to associate me with being a guy. I was often just 'one of the guys', just a bit less tough though..
My adult units know about my desire to transition and that I do identify as male, most everyone I know in the end knows I'm no longer considering myself a lady. Although I've met quite a few people that have shown nothing but resistance, it's easier for my step-mother and my father to accept my transition than my mother and brother. My co-workers are not taking it so well, I think they're confused...
In fact, my brother hassles me every single day since finding out. So I'm actually feeling quite down, especially having to deal with other regular stress that people go through on the daily anyway. Like work and stuff like that, I wouldn't be stressed out but just the extra hassling is starting to get to me. I've told my mother, but it hasn't really been dealt with.
I feel like being called by my birthname and my biological gender is a really threatening thing now, because I've made it very clear that I'm not that gender or under that name anymore. But it still happens and I don't like correcting my mother because she doesn't like 'being disrespected' or 'made to seem rude in front of others', so I quit trying with her.. And clearly her disrespect for me is reflecting upon my brother.
I assume to introduce myself before anyone else does it for me, because I feel like no one else can get it right.
And I feel alone because of this.
