Yes, it is easy to focus on the positive outcome of what was your very honest, trusting and courageous revelation and forget about all the worry and stress and doubt and uncertainty, day by day month by month, year after year, leading up to that one critical move by you. Unnerving, really, when you step back and look at the big picture: a life long issue with no simple resolution - an ongoing battle of self acceptance and the need to be accepted by those you truly care about or love. Standard fare for many if not most transgendered individuals
Reading a story like yours is so nice because it is how we all wish we would be treated by those who are important to us (well, except me as I am important to no one except for the material $upport I throw down - and so I've learned to not allow any one to become very important to me, lol). But I digress... Point is, YOU should be acknowledged for your strength of character, independence, honesty and sensitivity as is so clearly illustrated by your narrative.
Yes, it was nice to see how your parents are genuinely intelligent, ethical, enlightened and loving! And that's wonderful and refreshing to see! Your exchange almost sounded like the kind of ideal families that were depicted in television programs decades ago. Where parental thoughtfulness, respect and caring precludes a rush to judgment about some issue that challenges their understanding, but because it is important to a son or daughter they will instead pause, consider and reevaluate their own potential biases. Such people are "real" i.e. free of bigotry and ignorance, intelligent, and not blinded by absolute moralistic doctrine.
True, your family is certainly above the norm. They are essential individuals. Also true is the fact that you too have such wonderful character traits! Beyond thoughtfulness, sensitivity, intelligence and respect, you are one courageous (and very pretty) girl! I think that should be acknowledged. Kudos to you Danielle! By anyone's standard you're a person to be admired.