Wow. Just.....wow. So yesterday, I came out to everyone I know via Facebook. I was getting ready for bed and I was like ->-bleeped-<- it, YOLO (did I seriously just say that). So I typed up a post and clicked send. I was terrified. Here is what I said:
"People have been asking me if I've been okay and why it is I've missed so much school, so I think it's time to be up front with you. This past year has been one of the hardest of my life. I have been battling a depression that has crippled me and I feel that it's about time that I deal with it. I am transgender, and for the past few years, it has consumed my life. I have kept it a secret and it has burned a whole through me. My academics have suffered and my mental health has suffered for it. I will suffer no longer. Throughout this summer and over the next school year, I will be transitioning from male to female. So I guess this is my public coming out, and if you've got any problems with it, there's an un-friend button waiting for you. To any of you who have any questions, I am open to answering them. Thanks for listening to (or, um, reading) this. I just feel like I need to let this out into the open, to be honest with the people whom I've spent the majority of my life living alongside. Also, thank you to those few of you who knew, as your support has made the difference of life and death to me."
The sheer amount of support that I have gotten has been overwhelming. People have come up to me at school and said that they fully support me and even wanted to talk about it. I've even had friends message me and ask me what pronouns I go by and what name I prefer to be called. I couldn't believe it. I was just walking down the hallway and a friend that I hadn't spoken to in years came up to me and gave me a high five. Then i get to class and there is a bag of candy on my desk. Wow. I was expecting a level of hate that just wasn't there. Everyone was so nice about it. I even had a friend come out to me that she is a lesbian and that she's got my back. I feel so thankful for such great friends. Mind you I'm still in highschool so I would have expected a lot more hate than was there. I don't really know what this post is here for, but I guess I just wanted to let people know that sometimes you can be surprised. That not everybody out there is there to hurt you. That sometimes, you just need to say to hell with it, it's my life and I'm going to do what I need to do and idgaf what anybody says.
