Where I live people are not very accepting. Ive been called Poof many times and other names. It's where I grew up and considering Ive always come back to this area you'd think people would be used to me by now.. I mean Im only getting hair removal and im on H.R.T. Is it that hard to accept. I will leave to get more oppurtunities. But most girls do.
I heard a statistic that 1 in 3 boys hits girls where I live. So I guess a lot of us girls are getting hurt here.
I have done Martial Arts. So I dont get hit because I can block.
There are really nice people here as well but they dont seem to like Trans people even when we have nothing to do with them. It's like they are the ones that are paranoid not me! It's beautiful here and that helps but some people here really need to be informed. Emeyle said it sounds like they are un-informed here and we live in the Dark Ages.

Where I live it is a non issue.  There are some that have nothing to do with me.  And then there is the rest of the world, they just accept me as a woman.  Oregon is pretty progressive when it comes to trans issues.

Janet

Nice new pic. Janet....Lookin' good 

The area I live in is very religious. So although they are generally nice, I can still sense the non-acceptance.
In there eyes I'm a sinner and pervert.
But at least most are nice about it. Some seem genuinely accepting at times, even glad because they don't feel threatened. Some see me as a woman. I notice guys will open doors for me. Some guys even chat me up. I've been growing my boobs the last six months and they recently went into a major growth spurt. I wonder if this has something to do with the recent degree of tolerance and/or acceptance 

HOSTILE. I will qualify that by saying that my town is quite wide spread in area and not as densely populated as other small towns so by simply going to another district, I am unknown by sight and have no trouble at all. 

In the crowded town centre, dominated by the shopping mall, I become anonymous, get treated like a lady, doors held open etc., but it is once back within my own neighbourhood, it is the usual suspects that create the heartache and misery. It is only a small number but they tend to be the gossips, the yobs and the uneducated. 

I live in conservative Republican territory but it's just on the outskirts of Chicago where you will find places like Boystown.  We go out to dinner a lot locally and have probably caused more than a few neck snaps when we kiss in public but they will just have to get used to the fact there are lesbians amongst them.

Julie

i live in the State of Transphobia, better known as Ohio, even though it voted Democrat in the last election the whole side of the state i'm on is MAINLY Republican, better known as The Bible Belt, and they ABHOR ANYTHING that is outside the biblical norm. my service manager told me that the city sued a family video store because they wanted it to not be able to have its customers rent porn, thats how accepting they are of anything not "Biblically normal". i seriously wonder how they would act if they found out the Bible was really fiction or never existed to begin with??/

Ive been researching the Bible and it's opinion on trans. Its not so bad it says it one part-"Those who seek Transgression, seeketh love."
I looked up Transgression and it's meaning:-
'The action of going beyond or stepping over some boundary or limit.'
I see this as similiar to transition.

Quote from: Julie Marie on February 21, 2009, 10:16:33 AM
I live in conservative Republican territory but it's just on the outskirts of Chicago where you will find places like Boystown.  We go out to dinner a lot locally and have probably caused more than a few neck snaps when we kiss in public but they will just have to get used to the fact there are lesbians amongst them.

Julie

Going to school in Chicago allowed me to come to terms with my transition. I'd say this is two-sided because people are more "->-bleeped-<--aware" so its very hard to just blend in as one of the girls.

I live in Oregon too. There are places, in Oregon, that are not so welcoming, so I've heard. I have not found any, yet. I have been to a few places outside of Oregon and none have been un welcoming, even in some remote places in Northern California.

My area of South London is rough and pretty homophobic but it has it's share of Gay and Fetish clubs so can't be too bad.

Only real danger is teenage gangs but they mainly have it out between each other. We get a few shootings, one guy was shot dead on the ice at the local ice rink so as I said it's a bit rough...

Have faith and you will be safe.

I live in Virginia and for the most part it isn't very accepting where I live.  There are 4 naval bases, 2 army bases, and one air force base all within a half hour drive.  On top of that I live 5 minutes away from Regent University, the home of the family channel, and the reverend Pat Robertson.   Amazingly enough however, I am finding out that there is a large TG community here.  Granted I work with a bunch of ex military gung ho manly men types so I hear a lot of bashing.

I live in south Texas. Just between Houston and Galveston. Its more tolerant than I figured it might be. But in turn, the grand hooha of the kkk lives across the street from me!

I imagine the area I live in is very transphobic, but the only ones who know me as trans are members of my old church, and some of the people I work with.  If they represent the general population here, then def transphobic.  It's been long enough now, the church folk can't recognize me. I even have ocassional conversations with women who used to know me as Mike, and have no clue.....just another pleasant conversation.  The people I work with , I've outlasted, and now their memory is blurred, and who they knew, just doesn't exist.
Otherwise, yeah, I'm taken for female everywhere else, always.


Bev

Ky. is very transphobic I get along ok becose no one know I trans or not willing to say enything about it

I guess passing is one of the reasons I get hassled. If I pass with most people it's ok. But sometimes I dont pass amongst people I meet. They figure it out and then ask me questions. Other than that it's ok here I think. But up on the Gold Caost in Queensland the environment is warmer and I can show my curves more. In Tasmania I rely on my breasts and female face to pass. It has a lot to do with looking at my body I suppose as to whether or not I pass amongst strangers or not. Teenages seem to hassle me down here when they are Yobbbo's.Other than that when it's rough in an area it isnt fun being there regardless of whether I'm trans or not.

I live in Oklahoma. A.K.A. the center of the Bible Belt. I hate this state with a passion and would give anything to move to somewhere like Maine.

As for how people are accepting... I believe I've just luckily made the best choices in friends to have. I would be scared to go out in public presenting, though. I do not trust this place at all.

People that I haven't told consistently make trans jokes, but the weird thing is you can't tell whether they'd be accepting or not from that. =/

I may not have seen a lot of homophobia or transphobia, but it is a guarantee that it's out there. I'm not even out to a lot of people, so it's obvious that I haven't really seen nothing. However as I said earlier, I would be scared to present around here.

Ashland Oregon is O.K. as far as I've heard. I know of at least one trans woman who does fine, and I've heard of other transpeople in the region who get along quite well. Ashland is known as the gay town because it has a lot of hippies and lesbians (the gay population is pretty small), but really that's a small sample of the population.

I live in Marion, Indiana, a city of 33,000 located between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, and is not among the Indiana municipalities that don't discriminate as far as gender identity.

When I first transitioned, I did not think there would be anyone who accepts me as a woman. Five years later, a majority (89 percent) of Marion, or almost 28,500 residents see me as a woman.

The other 4,500 do not.

There are four other M2F's (besides yours truly) in Marion.

Usually those people don't understand or are trans-phobic. Usually, I let those individuals confront their transphobia by watching "Dirty Sexy Money", "Queen of the Willis," or the movie "Transamerica."

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Since I occasionally go out to nearby Van Buren and Gas City (mostly on gift runs,) usually I run into someone (who has either lived in my Van Buren neighborhood, went to Eastbrook High School with my late brother, or a fellow Mississinewa alumnus who have not seen me since high school graduation) and most of the time they are surprised that the person didn't really see me as a guy, but more feminine (ala Peggy Hill of "King of the Hill," unattractive and less shapely)

In fact only 32 of the 132 Mississinewa Class of 2001 have already recognized me as a woman. The 100 others will probably have no idea come 2011 in my high school reunion.

Ogden, Utah. Cindi Jones is a better judge of the area than I. I moved here form the Rep. of Panama. It's not too bad in Utah. An occasional insult. The weather is horrible. But I dislike anywhere more than 1500 miles from the equator. Utah has changed some in the last few years. The federal government does not allow some of the previous activities of the predominant religion. Some may not like the way I am but they'll get over it. I did.

I'm sure they are not very accepting in Jackson, Mississippi either.  I've never had a problem here, but I know of several gay and lesbian people who have.