So as you may have guessed, I came out to my house mates last night. I called a house meeting for 7 o'clock but it took till 8 for them to actually all get together, yet surprisingly my nerves didn't build up like I thought they would. They finally all came into the living room and sat in a sort of semi-circle all facing me, which was slightly intimidating but I held my nerve. I started off by saying "do you remember the expo? Well that wasn't for a bet, I wanted to do that. I'm a crossdresser." One of them said ok, another said cool and the last just nodded. I was pretty taken aback by how easy it was and how nonchanlent they had been with their acceptance. I may have well as said my favourite music genre isn't Death Metal, it's actually Black Metal, that's how little difference it made to them. And that's how I feel it should be really. Clothes are just clothes, and the identity you attach to them shouldn't matter as long as it's still you. As two of my house mates pointed out (all my housemates are girls except for one) they wear men's clothes all the time, with one of them chipping in that they got their brother's hand-me-downs for most of their childhood. There were none of the silly question's that many other crossdresser's get like 'are you gay? Do you want to become a woman? WHY do you do this?' just a total acceptance and some realisations. For example, it became obvious that I don't just paint my nails black for gigs, when my eyelashes look ever so slightly thicker than normal sometimes, it's because I really had been wearing make-up and briefly mentioning how great they think Eddie Izzard is (I made sure we all watched one of his DVD's together near the beginning of last term). A little bit later one of them also said that if she were a lesbian she wouldn't have been able to get everyone in a group and tell us like that and that I was very brave for going through with it. They haven't really asked me anything about it yet, but I'm sure when they meet Rihannon they might be a bit more inquisitive. I also told another friend from uni who I don't live with but who is very close to me and my housemates about a week ago. Her Dad started transitioning about a month ago and is living full time as Emma and she and her brother are very accepting and understanding. I did originally plan to tell her after telling my house mates, but an online conversation just sort of drifted towards that area quite easily and I ended up telling her in advance, and I'm glad I did. The support made telling my house mates so much easier.