...who is now not even a friend. It doesn't sound much but it basically started my whole story.
I came out to my best friend a few months ago. Whilst I was really scared how he might react, I was also hopeful it would be good - he's gay, and I assumed he might find it easier to support me, coming from the LGBT community.
Boy was I wrong. Couldn't have been even more wrong if I tried. Initially he was okay. We went to LGBT Pride, he asked me to come out to gay bars with him, and I thought everything was working out great.
Then I found out he'd been talking to his boyfriend about me behind my back. Saying things like 'if she had a good f***, she'd stop all this nonsense', and 'I'll humour her while it lasts, it's hilarious'. My God did he make a mistake - his boyfriend got really upset and tried explaining how he often felt he should have been born female.
After several months of us accepting my coming out, he's stopped calling me Sean, and refuses to use male pronouns. I told him I'd seen my GP about getting referred recently - he says, 'yeah well, everyone needs to talk about their problems. You'll get over it. I've been thinking of seeing a shrink myself'. He's been nothing but nasty and spiteful for months. I've discussed androgyny (I identify as an androgyne) with him, and he's laughed in my face, telling me he doesn't believe I'll ever go through with it.
Sorry if I've just provided one of the most horrible coming out stories ever. But now I have a great friend and a trans ally in his ex
After all of this, I'm almost completely prepared for the hostility from my parents. It can't be any worse.
EDIT: By the way, I wasn't sure if this belonged here, or in the androgyne forum, but I thought it would be okay here anyway as a 'coming out' story...
