who was the first person you told about being trans

[stephaniec]

the first person was my present therapist. I was in hiding for far way too long.

[Devlyn]

My best friend Tina. She said "If you're going to do that, you need to get boobs." She later named me Devlyn. Yeah, I'm not transsexual, but I thought I'd stray into this section and reply anyway.

Hugs, Devlyn

[Handy]

The first person I told was my wonderful-amazing-super-special-greatest-person-ever partner, muffinpants.

If my rain of accolades didn't make it obvious... she reacted well.

[VivianK]

An old work acquaintance named Lottie, with whom I shared far too much emotional baggage following my divorce.  I'd call her a friend, but I'm honestly not sure if I have any of those.  I'm pretty sure I don't.  I can't tell you the last time a non-family-member actually called me or invited me to something.

[LivingTheDream]

First person I mentioned it to was an former teacher of mine/ current academic adviser at school. She suggested I go to the school counseling center so I did, 2nd person I told was the therapist there, my current one still. First person close to me I told was a buddy I've known since 7th grade. Still working up the courage to tell my brother and a bunch of others 

[Seras]

My mum. Though she came fishing for it. She knew I had been down a long time and decided to literally not leave me alone till I told her.

[Jessika]

My Wife about 1 1/2 weeks ago.

It's a battlefield atm.

[Marcia]

The first person I told was a female friend. A friend who has a FtM child. So I knew that she would understand.

[DanielleA]

I told my fostermum. It was painfully obvious that I was not like her bio-sons and she was the only person that I trusted back then. So I ended up taking her aside and had a one on one chat. You could see as the conversation went on, it all pieced together in her mind. She has been my rock ever since. Love you mama bear!

[becoming gianna]

I told one of my oldest friends. Then i told a few more that i thought would understand. So far only one has rejected me. Ironically i met him through his wife, and now, even though he wont talk to me, im better friends with her than i ever was with him.

[Jade_404]

My Uncle 7 years ago before he passed. We were drunk, and I blurted out that I thought I may be. He was very manly and into sports and guy stuff. Always tried to get me to Man up... get me to do guy stuff. I told him that I hated all that guy stuff and just felt wrong about everything. He said he always kinda knew but he was scared for me because his friend who was a transwoman got killed in college, back in the 70s. Brutal story He told me its a very scary path and he felt I should just forget about it and Man-Up, thats why he always pushed me to get into sports and crap. He never told anyone what I told him, took it to his grave. He was an awesome person and the story of his friend still makes me sad and scared. I kinda re-buried the thoughts until just recently. I told my Mom a few weeks ago and she was not surprised...  how did everyone know and I didn't ? My brothers introduce me as their sister.... ever since we were kids.... 

[KaylaMadison]

The first person I told was my wife, although it wasn't really planned, she just kinda kept digging one night until she uncorked the dam I had built.

[Jenna Marie]

My wife. She was shocked and scared (to be honest, so was I, since I just figured it out!) but we muddled through together. I don't think I would have been half as successful without her unflinching support from day 1.

[Adam (birkin)]

My girlfriend at the time.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

My mom

[MelissaAnn]

An old girlfriend of mine who was far enough removed from my life that she was unable to out me to anyone else that knew me. I really needed to share  my secret verbally with someone who knew me. To my surprise she said it made sense to her. 

[Sydney_NYC]

My wife (as noted in my signature Sept 21, 2013) I had already identified as gender fluid and then genderqueer. (My wife is gender fluid.) The funny thing is that I had been contemplating transitioning back and forth so many times of the years, talking myself out of it time and time again. I was driving and we were talking and it hit me like a ton of bricks. "There is no denying, I am transgender and I need to transition from MtF." I told my wife seconds later. She wasn't totally surprise though. She has been great and super supportive. Of course we've had our ups and downs, but we are a stronger couple than ever before.

[skin]

I told an acquaintance.  I was good friends with her back in high school where we both on the gay straight alliance so I knew it was safe to tell her.  Since we had grown a bit apart since then, there was no chance of negative consequences, so telling her was a great way to build confidence and get the ball rolling.

[Miranda Catherine]

I told my parents at four when they sat me down and told me n no uncertain terms that I was a boy and that if I got into my mom's makeup or jewelry again I'd be punished. I told them, according to my mom, then if I'm not a girl I'm in the wrong body. I didn't believe it and asked her if it was really true and she said, 'word for word!' At 12 I crawled into my mom's lap (very bizarre in itself for me to have done that by that age) and told her that if I couldn't live as a girl, then I didn't want to live, period.

[Juliett]

A very sweet woman I worked with named Kari. She was very supportive. Sadly life took us in different directions shortly after.