In school I had relatively few friends of either gender, and none of which I would call good friends, although the girls would talk to me, but the boys would treat me very badly.  During late high school computers we were only just getting our first IBM based computers, x86, AT etc, so I started to hang out in the computer room, and learnt a lot about computers, which helped me today, for I work as a Senior Systems Engineer and am very well respected at the company I work for (and where I transitioned).

My first real friends were when I started to work at McDonalds in year 11 at high school, and I became fiends with all the lesbians at the store (our store was infamous in Sydney for the large lesbian and drug user population that worked there at the time).  I was seen as just one of the girls, and really fitted in with them too, in a way I was just one of the dykes.  I had a few male friends there also, but mainly around my abuse of drugs to try and deal with being TS, and not being able to do anything about it.  I would smoke pot with a few of the guys, but most of my time I spent with the other dykes.

Now days I have more friends than I have ever had.

Sally

I went to an all boys school (ow) and of the few people who would talk to me, yeah, so all my friends were male, as my parents kept me relatively socially stunted (permanently grounded to do man things and help my father)

My friends in junior and high school were 40% of my birth sex and as I got older the percentage bacame less.

I didn't have many friends, period. Partly cuz I felt I did fit in and partly cuz the girls thought I'd hit on them (they thought I was a lesbian) and the boys saw me as 'some butch thing that we can't hit on so we ignore'. I was a loner, got use to it.

I really did not have any friends growing up,  Too shy by far, and then I did not know how to react, traped in a guys body.  All the friends I've had at work over the years have been women.  Never had close friends till now.  Never liked myself till now.

Beni