| Yes, like 4 times lmao (not 4 people but literally like 4 times to everyone). It's been a long and difficult process of understanding my identity - from being confused about bisexuality to processing being gay to now understanding my queerness and being enby. All of my friends know about me being queer and some of my immediate family such as parents, sister, and cousin. At the moment I'm really just coming to terms with being enby and what that means for me so only my closest friends know. I think I'm fortunate enough to have supportive people around me, however, it is still tough for my parents to really wrap their heads around queerness and accept it. |
| I'm bisexual, but I lean more towards girls(I'm a girl myself). Just yesterday, I came out to my mother. My family is super religious, but luckily it didn't go as bad as I had expected. I was sort of forced to come out because my mom has this program on all the electronics in the house that is supposed to block porn sites, but it also will alert my mom of anything related to the Lgbtq+ community. I didn't know this, so I was searching up things for scholarships, and I ended up searching 'bisexual scholarships', and the program alerted my mom of it. So then she sat me down when everyone else was gone, and talked to me. She said a bunch of stuff that was still sort of homophobic while trying to convince me that it was just a phase. I tried to reassure her by telling her that even though I was attracted to girls, I leaned more towards boys, which was just a plain out lie. But I said it so that my mom wouldn't make me go to talks at church about being LGBTQ+ because I didn't want to have to deal with that again. Anyways, she said she wouldn't tell anyone else because she still believes that it's a phase that won't matter in a couple years. Sorry mom, but I'm pretty sure that it's not 'just a phase'. |
| I've come out to close friends and my siblings. I've come out to coworkers in the past, which is where my experiences are mixed (my friends and siblings all took it very well and support me). Where I am in life right now, I don't have any intention of ever coming out to my parents. Being a lesbian is a part of me that I consider very personal. The way I look at it, I don't want to share that part of myself with someone I know won't accept or respect it. I'll speak out in public or protests taking place at my school campus, however, when it comes to my personal life it becomes a lot more difficult for me. I do think this could be a temporary way of thinking for me however. |
| Only my grandparents on my mother's side don't know that I am bi, due to them being homophobic. Anyone else knows about it. |
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| I had struggled for years to work up the courage. Then sometime in 2017, I kinda just snapped and came out as transgender on a public Facebook post. I literally said "life's too short and yolo, so I'm coming out as transgender". Okay maybe I worded it a bit better than that, but in hindsight, wow it was really risky. Please don't do this unless you know for sure you're going to be safe. My parents were upset that I didn't tell them face-to-face, but if I could've done that I would've years ago. The problem I think started when I was 10-13 y/o, when my mother caught me crossdressing. At the time she seemed upset/mad, giving me the "it's just a phase" shtick. I had already gone to great lengths to keep it secret so when she forced the door open I was panicked. She and my brother are Christians, which also didn't help. That fear festered and slowly built up for years until it broke me, hence the post. At the time it honestly felt like the only way I'd ever get out. Thankfully I'm quite lucky, my immediate and extended family accepted me. Sure it took a couple of years for them to stop openly deadnaming and misgendering me, but they got there eventually. |
veaulroisja said: I asked my closest sibling what he thought about transgender people, and he told me they were just trying to escape from their reality... so I decided he was right and strove to grow into the best man I could be! This. I can completely relate to this. I could never come out as trans because my family had told me similar things. "It's just a phase." "They are doing it for attention." I had it pounded into me that I needed to marry a man and have babies. Be feminine. So I strove to be the best woman that I could be. Denying my feelings and letting dysphoria almost be the death of me. |
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