Great question Stephanie!
In terms of friends and how I am treated socially, this is the scenario right now: I am in my early 20s, live in California, and without a doubt belong to an extremely open-minded and the most politically correct generation/age group that has ever existed.
For this reason, I feel the fact I am trans has caused people to walk on egg shells around me. It is difficult to find friends who won't treat me as anything other than a walking political and social experiment, if you get what I mean. You know how the majority of young people decades ago were transphobic and homophobic? Yeah, the complete opposite is true now, and most everyone is threading very lightly around me as a result.
In a post-Caitlyn Jenner society where trans is slowly but surely becoming the new "gay rights," my gender identity has superseded all other aspects of my identity. It seems people are only ever interested in talking or becoming friends with me because I am transgender, as they are "fascinated" they are getting to talk to a real, breathing, passing trans person. I have this label put on me and while every single person in my life has treated me extremely (and tbh overly) nice because I am trans, it is annoying at times knowing that is all people ever think of me.
