Quote from: kelly_aus on April 23, 2012, 04:55:20 AM
Not always.. What shocked my family is not that I came out as trans, but that it had taken me so long.. My friends all reacted in much the same way. We don't always hide it as well as we think we do...
I get a lot of this, too. I've not come out to my family yet, but the friends I have come out to have been pretty underwhelmed. I think my favorite response to coming out was the friend who asked, "And this is supposed to change our friendship how, exactly?" and proceeded to address me by my preferred name and pronouns as if she had always known me as being female.

Then there is the friend who guessed before being told, even while I was still presenting 24/7 as male. She just asked my wife out of the blue one day,"So, um, is your husband a girl?" She's always been unusually perceptive. It really shook me up for a while, though. I went through a period of thinking everyone who looked at me could see through my disguise and was thinking I was a liar and a freak. I eventually got over that, mostly.
When I came out to my minister, she revealed that she had been thinking for a while that I might be FTM, so the surprise was really only that I'm actually the opposite.
That said,the most closed-minded people I know happen to be related to me, so I haven't really met my biggest challenges yet.