Hi, Guys and Girls!
Recently I exchanged a few PM’s with another member (she has to have a name, so I’ll call her “Miss Fabulous”), and this has raised a question in my mind. So I thought I’d see what some of you have to say.
Miss Fabulous has testified that (1) she had wonderful parents, and (2) she never had any problem accepting the fact that she was trans. As for me and my parents, well, let’s just say that I was glad when I was old enough to leave home. What I did leave home with was a serious problem with self-esteem. I had parents who didn’t help me to be self-accepting generally, and I certainly wasn’t self-accepting when it came to my TGism. In fact I was in outright denial for a good bit of my life.
I realize that there may not be a correlation here: good parents won’t necessarily make someone comfortable with their TGism. It sounds a bit simplistic to me. But I thought the question was worth asking. So perhaps I can ask it like this:
Did your parents and upbringing leave you self-accepting generally? If so, did that help you accept your TGism? If not, did that make it harder for you to accept your TGism?
Also, my parents never knew I was TG. I may have been a stupid kid, but I wasn’t stupid enough to tell them. So another question:
Did your parents/siblings know you were TG? If so, were they accepting? And if they were accepting, did that help you become self-accepting? If they knew and weren’t accepting, did that make it harder for you to achieve self-acceptance?
A lot of questions here, I know. Please feel free to answer any of them you like.
Best wishes,
Annabelle