Hi everyone, my name's Ian, and I'm a transgender boy beginning college in New England. There's a lot of trans people here, which is great, and a large gay community. However, I am still in the closet for the most part...no one besides my friends in a similar predicament knows about me, even my parents and my boyfriend. Regardless, I act and dress as a man, which no one seems to have much curiousity about....however many have made offhanded threatening comments about what they would do if I was transgender.
My story's the same as the others...as a kid, whenever I would think about "the future," I would always be a man. Growing up I was a tomboy, and would always wear boys clothes and want to go exploring outside. When I was around 11 or 12 I realized that I might be trans (although I didn't know that it was called that, or that there were other people with these thoughts. At that young age I became very depressed, even suicidal. This continued until earlier this year, when I think I started to accept my lot.
Now I'm starting school, and trying to figure out how to reconcile my identity with those around me, while trying not to lose my family/
