Yesterday I came out to my sister. Again, just like everyone else, she said she kind of already knew. And she was ok with it. She joked that she always wanted a sister.
In the past few weeks, I have come out to a majority of my friends, my parents, my sister, and my in-laws. All have been accepting and supportive. I have merged my Google+ account with my blogger blog. I have updated my email address to my real email address on my blog sites. It feels like a weight has been lifted. No more hiding who I really am, for the most part. As of now, I am not coming out at work and I am not coming out to certain family members. For work, I work for a small company that is kind of like an old boys club. Even though it is illegal in CT to discriminate against transgenders, I fear that they would still find a way to make my life a living hell and maybe even find another way to fire me. For certain family members, they are very old school religious (my grandmother and great aunt especially). I know they would not understand and would go on and on how I would be going to hell. Plus with my parents living next to both of them, I know my grandmother and great aunt would cause extra added stress on my parents and they already get enough from them. I'm ok with them not knowing. I can at least hide it from them for a while. I'm not sure what will happen when I start HRT. I hope I can still hide it from both work and my certain family members.
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