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Just curious. I have a transgender niece. She is only 6 years old! So strange to not be the only one anymore.

Sadly, I am the only one.  :/

Just me, but I'm still discovering myself and unsure where I belong.?
But that still falls under the trans umbrella I guess.

I do have a sister in Utah I don't talk with anymore, I think she has a female body, and an alien brain from other space.?

When I came out as bi years ago, my dad, distraught, insisted that there was no one in the family with "the gay gene." Leads me to think I'm probably the only trans person as well.

Quote from: captains on October 02, 2014, 03:56:58 AM
When I came out as bi years ago, my dad, distraught, insisted that there was no one in the family with "the gay gene." Leads me to think I'm probably the only trans person as well.

Its nice that your dad admitted its something you're born with, even though I don't think they've discovered a "gay gene" yet.

You forgot several generations there. Children, grand children, etc.

Quote from: Mark3 on October 02, 2014, 04:00:58 AM

Its nice that your dad admitted its something you're born with, even though I don't think they've discovered a "gay gene" yet.

Very true! It could've been a lot worse.

My uncle, who is now my Aunt transitioned two years before I started. My youngest sibling has also been showing signs as well, but they financially can't afford to transition.

Quote from: LordKAT on October 02, 2014, 04:39:49 AM
You forgot several generations there. Children, grand children, etc.

Whoops! I just added them sorry.

I am the inaugural transgender person in my family as far as I know. Yayyyyy!

My cousin who was transgender, passed away a month ago. I never had the opportunity to talk to him about being transgender, due to our family's massive mishandling of his gender situation + transition (long, horrible story that I don't want to go into) and because of the decades-long, drug and alcohol problem that took him.

And then there are those in the family who we don't know about yet.  If I kept my secret for decades, I feel certain there are those who will take it to the grave.  In my parents generation (WWII) it seems no one was out about anything.  Heck FDR had to hide his wheel chair.  The millennialist generation in my family features a bunch of out and likely gay or part of the LGBTQ family members.  I love how early they came out.  Change is good ;)

  I'm the only one. No known living gay ones either. I have 23 cousins in my extended family left.

Joelene

I am the only person in my entire extended family that is even out as LGBT. 

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the queerest of us all?  ;D

I live mostly with my Dad's side of the family, and they are all cishet. My mother's side of the family, who live on the other side of the country as me, I have a trans Uncle, a trans cousin (both FtM ike me), and a genderqueer Aunt, and a gay uncle.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only gay FtM though.

I'm the only transgender person to the best of my knowledge.  However, I do think one of my extended cousins is gay.

As far as I know I'm the only one. Then again, I know only my mother's side of the family and I try not to socialise too much with them either. I don't like big family gatherings.

This is really an interesting question, but one that may be more interesting to ask 20 years hence, when transgender people are hopefully going to be much more visible and widespread.  I'd theorise that this may give the occasional other family member the courage to come out as transgender, thanks to the pioneer in the family.

Just an idea...
Julia

I'm the only LGBT+ person in my entire family, that I know of.

I sort of get the feeling that one of my cousins is somewhere on the LGBT+ spectrum, but a good majority of my family is conservative which would probably decrease the chances of anyone (myself included; I'm only out as bisexual to my parents, and out as trans to nobody) properly coming out to most family members. :-\

i am the only one (as far as my knowledge goes, anyways).

I'm the only one as far as I know. I'm keeping in mind that my kids may end up being trans like me, or even non-binary. I do the best I can to treat them in a gender neutral way, but all their relatives constantly direct male stereotypes towards my babies. I think my step-daughter is probably cis however cause she seems very proud to be a girl.

Me, Myself & I

On my side of the family, I'm the only transgender person (that I know of) since I have first cousins who are long lost.  Our great nephew on Miss Dee's side is FtM and started HRT couple of months ago age 15.  Her side of the family is pretty rainbow anyway with a bi niece along with several lesbian and gay cousins.  LOL

I am the only one in my family who is trans.  I have a brother who is gay, and another who is quite anti-, but perhaps he doth protest too much.

Quote from: King Malachite on October 02, 2014, 03:29:41 AM
Sadly, I am the only one.  :/

It would be nice to have another one so you wouldn't feel alone.

My family is well connected with each other. If anyone else was trans, I'd have heard about it.

Everyone else in my family was straight and cis as far as I know.

Only one. My family  is religious too so that tends to quell all queer uprisings.

Im curious has anyone else asked the significance of this, does that mean trans people could be a genetic anomaly rather than a passable trait(s), or is society still not 'out' enough for it to be more widespread as a concept to be open about?

I'm pretty sure I am the only one although I do have one gay cousin.

I don't think it's a genetic anomaly or a trait.  Rather, I think it a natural result of the prenatal epigenetic interplay of hormones on the fetus' genes.  So, at least to a large extent, we would expect it to occur randomly.

Society's pressure to hide it is probably a big contributor too.

I am the only one in the family and I am not out to everyone about it so there could be others that are struggling as well but I have no clue about it

Do in-laws and ex-husbands count as relatives?

I'm 64 years old, partially transmale and very androgynous. Most of my family are mixed gender, but unaware of it, and seemingly content with their assigned gender labels.

I didn't realize I was partial trans/non-binary until four years ago, and knew I'd been suppressing a male personality since puberty.
Before that, I didn't think of it at all. I just assumed I was male, even though I "knew" I was a girl.
Strangely, everyone else, including my parents, also accepted me as male, even though it was never expressed, and gender issues weren't even on the map.

Once I understood and explained it to my grown daughter she said she was the same as I am, except with little dysphoria or conflict. accepting her male side as a matter of course.

My ex-husband recently emailed me out of the blue, saying he is considering transitioning to non-binary female, wants to start taking hormones and live as a woman, and also come live with me in Thailand, but I don't know if he's just pulling some con job or not.

He was incredibly treacherous when I was with him, so this could be some plot to dump his current wife.
I told him not to contact me unless he's divorced, and has seen a gender counselor.

He has a brother who is very femme, showing signs of the familiar anger and frustration issues I used to have, as well as my ex, as we tried to cope with our gender roles, but his family are wealthy, religious Republicans, so not much chance he will come out, if so.

His OTHER brother found out a few years ago his wife is actually a transwoman, and he was angry for being "tricked" and divorced her.

I suppose mixed gender people are often attracted to people who are similar.