So yesterday I wrote a letter for my parents. I was visiting them for dinner, but before I left I made some excuse about needing the bathroom and went and left it on their bed and went home.
QuoteDear Mum and Dad,
I need to tell you something, but it's too hard to do it in person, so I'm sorry for doing it in a letter. I want to be a girl, and for the last 11 months or so I've been taking medication to help me get there. My doctor knows and has been supporting me. I didn't choose to feel like this and my life would be so much easier if I didn't, but I've accepted that this is the only way I will ever have any chance of being happy. I've known this for as long as I can remember, and tried for a long time to make it go away, but I can't keep running from it any longer. This is something I have to do, and I hope that someday you can understand and accept me as your daughter, even if you might not understand and accept this now. Your acceptance, love, and support would mean everything to me.
I love you very much and I always will,
[me]
Xx
p.s. [my sister] knows and has known for years. [my brother] does not know, and I'd hope you won't tell him. My friends have known for some time and have been wonderfully accepting and supportive and have really helped me deal with this.
Pretty short and to the point, I think.
So the big news is that a couple of hours later I got a text from my dad saying "we have seen your letter. we just wish that you had told us much sooner rather than deal with it on your own. it doesn't make any difference to me and I will always love and support you xx".
And then from my mum: "I will always love, accept and support you no matter who you are xxx"
This afternoon I was up at theirs again and they just carried on as normal. Nothing changed, at all.
Suffice it to say this has gone pretty much as well as I could ever have possibly dreamed. I'm almost unbearably pleased, and wanted to share it with someone.
So...yeah. That's pretty good?
