Has anyone flat out told you that you are weird for being mtf?

[ChrissyRyan]

I had one person tell me it's all in my head.
My answer to that is,
"Yeah, that's the problem. I need it outside my head for all to see."

Good response!

Chrissy

[ChrissyRyan]

I was wondering, did medical people long ago mixup a trans-person as someone having multiple personalities?   

Chrissy

[Allison S]

Not in those exact words but my mom and sister did ask if I was sexually abused. I wasn't, but I guess they needed to rule that out before accepting me? I think that's a bit weird of them...
And recently on the street I had a guy tell me "you need help" assuming he meant I need psychological help because he read me as male trying to be female. I guess I'll never know since he was a complete stranger in a huge crowd of other complete strangers...

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[Linde]

A very good friend of mine feels that I am sick, and just need the proper medication to become the manly man again, who she wants to hang out with!

[Randi]

The original archaic meaning of weird was fate or destiny.

The "Weird Sisters" "Fates" or "Norns" in mythology determined you fate.

English is not my native language, but isn't 'weird' a kind of synonym for 'queer'? 'Queer' is already widely used for describing LGBT people.

Yes. Most people say my behavior and appearance is weird, but some of them confess that they were surprised that I am so much ordinary once they became intimate with me.

barbie~~

[barbie]

The original archaic meaning of weird was fate or destiny.

The "Weird Sisters" "Fates" or "Norns" in mythology determined you fate.

Yes. It is so true.

weird (adj.)
c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (source also of Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (source also of German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/weird

[ChrissyRyan]

Did have someone say that he just would not understand why anyone would want to change his or her sex (gender) and that these oddballs should use only the bathrooms for their born sex, not what they sex they want to be. 

Despite making some good points I thought he should hear, I did not think he changed his mind in any way about this.  He said that this was unnatural, period.  His only concession was maybe for those born with organs from both sexes as an birth anomaly, as that might cause some natural confusion.

Chrissy

[Linde]

  His only concession was maybe for those born with organs from both sexes as an birth anomaly, as that might cause some natural confusion.

Chrissy

Did he say in which bathrooms we can go?  Or are we the ones who have to step behind a tree?

[KimOct]

In 3 years I think maybe once.  Here is why I am not sure. 

As I have mentioned before I deal poker part time at a large casino.  So it was pretty crowded and I walk past this guy and as I do he says 'what is wrong with you?' 

I had pretty much passed him when he said it so I turned around and he was facing the other way but nobody was near him.

I think he was talking to me but I wasn't sure so I kept going.  If he had said it directly to me or I was positive he was talking to me I promise you we would have had a little 'talk'.

[Linde]

In 3 years I think maybe once.  Here is why I am not sure. 

As I have mentioned before I deal poker part time at a large casino.  So it was pretty crowded and I walk past this guy and as I do he says 'what is wrong with you?' 

I had pretty much passed him when he said it so I turned around and he was facing the other way but nobody was near him.

I think he was talking to me but I wasn't sure so I kept going.  If he had said it directly to me or I was positive he was talking to me I promise you we would have had a little 'talk'.

Was that in Hinckley, where the red necks and antilope roam?

[ChrissyRyan]

Did he say in which bathrooms we can go?  Or are we the ones who have to step behind a tree?

Linde,

No, he did not say anything about the appropriate bathroom for those who are intersexed.
He did seem sympathetic to them, but certainly not a binary trans-person who was born in the opposite gender's body and wants to transition.

Chrissy

[ChrissyRyan]

In 3 years I think maybe once.  Here is why I am not sure. 

As I have mentioned before I deal poker part time at a large casino.  So it was pretty crowded and I walk past this guy and as I do he says 'what is wrong with you?' 

I had pretty much passed him when he said it so I turned around and he was facing the other way but nobody was near him.

I think he was talking to me but I wasn't sure so I kept going.  If he had said it directly to me or I was positive he was talking to me I promise you we would have had a little 'talk'.

Maybe he lost a lot of money and was talking to himself, asking, "What is wrong with you?" 
Or perhaps he could have said that to someone he was with that day.

Chrissy

[KimOct]

Was that in Hinckley, where the red necks and antilope roam?

LOL.  No.  I don't like saying where because literally anybody can read this but I will make an exception this one time.

I deleted it now that Linde has read it.  Oops. guess I can't delete Linde's quote of my quote. 

[Linde]

LOL.  No.  I don't like saying where because literally anybody can read this but I will make an exception this one time.
Canterbury Park.

Never been there, only for horse stuff.

[Lisa89125]

A couple times. Once by a woman who just went off the deep end in the middle of a store. Second time by my sister when I first came out.

Lisa

[gracefulhat]

Had a patient wake up from anesthesia 2 weeks ago and ask me if I was a boy or a girl. I said, I am your nurse

[CynthiaAnn]

Yes, by my niece, but she added that she loves me anyway....

[Ann W]

I once had some older woman call me a "weirdo" at the grocery store. She was commenting to her friend, I think, not to me directly. That's the only time I can recall. There was a time that would have bothered me a lot more than it did then.

[KimOct]

For those reading that are not out yet, the fear of what will happen is far worse than the reality.  Just look at these stories, isolated incidents. 

There are of course instances of violence toward our community so we should all be smart and safe but people we know or strangers rarely say the kind of stuff we fear before we come out.