That seems to have gone well. I find that so many people have no clue about transgender people, let alone the greater LGBTQ community. I've ended up educating most of them. Almost all of them asked me if I can continue to let them know how things are going with me because I'm the only transgender person (let alone friend) that they've ever known.
I also found that it was much easier telling friends about being transgender because there is less of an emotional connection. With family, I always worried that somehow the emotional connection would get severed by coming out...like if they left me. With friends, although it would hurt me, there was less emotional risk if it all went bad.
