Will trans people ever be accepted like gay people?

[Becca]

I certainly think so.  There seems to be a general albeit slow move towards accepting people as they are.  Of course there are a small number of highly conservative people who make a lot of noise about how things should be the way they have always been but what I have noticed a lot more recently is that people in general are starting to see this for the bull that it really is,  so I am quite confident the day will come. 

[NekoBoy]

I sure hope so! But I guess it's hard for some people to understand why we would want to change. I mean I get all the time, "but you seem feminine." And it's just like, well you don't know how I feel on the inside. But that's just it. They don't know what we feel on the inside. Their minds can't wrap their head around it because they've never felt anything even remotely close to it before.
So what I'm at least hoping to happen is that people will accept without understanding. We want them to understand. But it's ok that they don't. As long as they accept it as something that's real, it's fine. But like Gay, it may take a while. Trans people gotta start banding together.
But one thing that's really good is when it gets into the media. For example, in Glee there was a trans character. And they even gathered a ton of them for a choir. We gotta get together like that!

[Mavis]

I think its already happening, when I came out as a child I was subjected to mental abuse and lets shrink it out and fix him from my dads side of the family. Then when I came out to my mom's side and wifes family I was quite shocked by the level of acceptance. Many family members and my wife cried for me that I had lived in such despair all those years.

There are some exceptions but what honestly blew my mind was my grandfather who if you ever met was rough around the edges, men play poker, smoke cigars and drink. doesn't understand mental illness in that people should be able to just suck it  up, was accepting of me when he would have been the last person on earth I told (thanks mom).

My moms sister called my cousins in for a meeting and made a big deal about the news she was about to tell them. They are both males in their very early 20's. the reaction she got was "that's it? mom its 2015 good for him"

There will always be a generational and location based discrimination during our life times, but our children will grow with a level of acceptance we could only dream of.

[Mavis]

I do have to add that as debatable as the bruce jenner subject is and I for one have had to deal with assumptions and fallout of her coming out...mom and sisters feel I should be loud and proud and don't understand why I just want to be seen as me and as such took it upon themselves to tell everyone even when I asked them not to. I attribute this to the gay movement and the fact they watched the "Cait" reality tv before knowing about me.

The positive aspect is both my mom and sisters said had they not seen the story they would have probably taken longer to come to accept me. It's still a struggle though because as much as it opened their eyes, they can't wrap their head around the fact is, everyones story is different and doesn't fit into this reality tv series picture of what being trans is all about.