Ask Matt: My Friends Don’t Take Me Seriously as Trans

[Natasha]

Ask Matt: My Friends Don't Take Me Seriously as Trans

http://tranifesto.com/2010/09/16/ask-matt-my-friends-dont-take-me-seriously-as-trans/
9/16/10

A reader writes: "When you were first starting transition, how did you get people to take you seriously? To see that you weren't 'faking' it? Because the LGBT group on my campus – they don't take me seriously. I can tell in how whenever they say my name it sounds fake, how they refuse to use my preferred pronouns – or even any pronouns. It feels like they don't believe me and it hurts inside. These people were some of my friends and to find that they don't (or won't) take me seriously is killing me inside."