Which of your family members are transgender?

mythy · October 01, 2014, 11:48:02 PM

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

King Malachite · October 02, 2014, 03:29:41 AM

Sadly, I am the only one. :/

Mark3 · October 02, 2014, 03:41:26 AM

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.?

captains · 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.

Mark3 · October 02, 2014, 04:00:58 AM

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.

LordKAT · October 02, 2014, 04:39:49 AM

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

captains · October 02, 2014, 07:41:12 PM

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.

Mariah · October 02, 2014, 07:49:15 PM

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.

mythy · October 03, 2014, 08:12:52 PM

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.

Eva Marie · October 03, 2014, 10:03:16 PM

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

Ally_B · October 15, 2014, 05:59:13 PM

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.

Tessa James · December 17, 2014, 08:38:56 PM

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

Joelene9 · December 17, 2014, 10:37:40 PM

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

Joelene

Jill F · December 18, 2014, 02:14:45 AM

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?

Rawb · January 03, 2015, 08:54:34 AM

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.

mellynn88 · January 03, 2015, 09:21:20 AM

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

Tossu-sama · January 03, 2015, 09:47:41 AM

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.

Julia-Madrid · January 03, 2015, 09:54:05 AM

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

synesthetic · January 27, 2015, 02:35:07 AM

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. $:-\$

infinity · February 01, 2015, 04:48:24 PM

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

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Which of your family members are transgender?

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