Bro believe me when I tell you, you're better off without them. I lived in the same close minded town from birth til I was 15/16 has LOTS and LOTS of friends. More male than female, but still had a few close female friends. Rumors were all over school, mostly people thinking I was a lesbian, but the group of 10 or so I was close to NEW that I was trans. Some of my close male friends tried "busting me out" to a couple of girls I was with, not thinking they knew I was a "biological" female. And the funniest one was, at a party one night, I was with my first "love" who knew everything about me, but she chose not to tell her friends. This kid I was "friends" with went up to her, obviously had a big crush on her and told her in her ear "You know that's really a girl right". She screamed at um "YEAH ACTUALLY I DO! I THOUGHT HE IS YOUR FRIEND?!" His face turned bright red, and that was the end of that friendship.
I ended up moving to a big city, and lost all of my childhood friends but two. My first "love" and another girl, whom I barely talk to. I also realized I'm better off. Why waste your time trying to be friends with someone who's going to judge you. My mom use to always tell me very very rarely does anybody keep in contact with their old childhood friends. People get older, and go into different directions of their life.
I also found my closest childhood buddy on myspace. We were friends from kindergarten up to our freshman year in highschool. We always slept at each others houses, played ninjas, were together almost everyday. This kid was like my brother. Once rumors got around high school, his mother called my mom and said "I don't want my son hanging out with XXXXX anymore, rumors are going around she's a lesbian and I don't want him to get hurt".
My mom came to me in tears, telling me I could no longer hang out with him. When we saw each other at school he'd pass by, wouldn't even look at me. It hurt a lot, but I brushed it off.
Just a few months ago I found him on myspace, figured his mom no longer ruled his life, and I dropped him a message telling him who it was, asking him how he's been etc...
He wrote back quickly, telling me it's been so long, how am I doing, how's my family etc...
By the 3rd or 4th time writing him back, I told him I was in the process of getting hormones and hopefully have surgery...
He never wrote back after that. And it didn't lose sleep over it. Showed me sometimes, even age and maturity don't help the ignorant.
Cherish the friendships you have now, and don't worry about the tards from your past.
