From other posts on Susan's Place, it does seem that fathers tend to take the news better than mothers. My parents always knew about my cross dressing but it was my mother who was very critical about it. My father was embarrassed by my behaviour but with hindsight, I think that he might have taken it reasonably well if I had permanently transitioned when he was alive. My mother was a different matter.
My father did panic when I told him I was planning to return to Britain, though. He was worried that I would become a prostitute! I don't know where he got that idea (I was an analyst programmer at the time), although he correctly guessed that I was secretly planning to live full time as a woman. As it happened, my parents also returned to Britain and I did not transition.
