I already told my siblings and my dad, and that has sort of died down into a somewhat level of comfort. My dad was like, "Right. So, when should I expect to meet your first girlfriend?" And he said it in a teasing way, and I shrugged and replied, "I'm just becoming a guy, dad, I'm still into guys." "OH. So.....You're gay now, too?" And he gave me this LOOK, like O_________O REALLY. REEEEALLY. siiiiiiigh.
So he's come to terms mostly with me being trans, now he has to deal with me being gay as well.
I sort of feel bad for my dad.
This sort of sucks.
This week though, my "coming out" week... Is all about Aunts and Uncles. Because they only come around once a year (in summer), and sometimes they even miss that. So I have my Uncle from Ontario and my Aunt from Edmonton.
And I'm telling my Aunt tomorrow- she shouldn't be too bad, she's always been fairly supportive of my relative strangeness and she's a nurse. I expect a barrage of questions along the "How much do you really know about what you're getting yourself into" line, and I'm fairly prepared for that.
My Uncle is the one I'm a little worried about. I don't even know how he feels about gay people, let alone trans peoples. I expect a lot of negativity, an eyeroll, him calling me crazy or stupid, and then just not believing me or something. I'm trying to prepare for the worst. My Uncle is leaving next week, about Tuesday-ish, so I want to tell him before then.
The most interesting thing though, is that I haven't yet told them that I'm getting a divorce from my husband of 6 years. They might have already heard it from someone else in the family, since news like that travels fast through the family grapevine, and think that when I take them aside, that I'll be telling them about that. So they might be a taaad surprised when I'm like, yehh sooo, I'm a guy now (But y'know, with a touch more tact than that).
