I'm in New York on business, having gotten trapped here yesterday by the storm my flight out is tonight. I spoke to my wife on Monday once I had my updated flight details and she informed me that her father is coming over today and will likely be there when I get home. She's planning to tell him about me today.
Her father is the one person above all others that I expect to have a negative reaction to this news. He's super conservative, probably alt-right. Listens to Rush Limbaugh and other wild conservative talk radio hosts, voted for Trump, and pretty much spews anything the Republican party says as if it's total fact. He's also a former cop and emotionally stunted in about every way possible. He's racist (25 years of being an inner city police officer apparently biased his views) and has been a stereotypical alpha male his whole life.
Now the fact of him knowing doesn't bother me, I really don't have any respect for him anymore (another long story) so his opinions of me don't really matter. However, what I'm really not looking forward to is having to come face to face with him after he's just found out that I'm transgender and that as a result his daughter is an emotional wreck and probably leaving me. I have no clue what to expect when I walk through that door but I know it's not going to be pleasant. I really don't want to go home, I'd rather just go somewhere else until he's gone. But then I keep telling myself, I need to just face the music. He won't be the last one to react poorly so I need to learn how to deal with that situation. UGH.
