I agree this is a fun thread lol. Anyways, I guess for the most part I was "Gay" in an official, public sense, people assumed and I never corrected the assumption and when I was 14 I did come out to my parents as Gay because I was confused about gender identity vs sexual orientation. I live in a city of 100,000+ in southern Colorado that acts like a small town of less than 1,000 in the Ozarks. Everybody knows each other's families and their business and goes to church together and it's...very strange. People are very misinformed about Transgender people in general around here not just TS but everyone under the umbrella and I unfortunately had 17 years of this brainwashing fed to me until I finally realized there were people like me out there and gradually over the past 4.5 years realized I was Trans, it wasn't something I recognized easily and still have trouble with to this day. However, I never really connected with the Gay community around here, not for lack of trying but because they likely knew from instinct that I wasn't one of them. I do sometimes still wish I was a Gay male instead of a Heterosexual (Trans) woman because it would be far easier and half the people in my life have already accepted the Gay thing including my mother and all of my closest friends.
