20 pan transfem from Finland. I was raised in a really religious conservative family with 10 siblings (I'm the oldest one) where the whole lgbtqia+ community was looked down upon. Every one of them seemed like they thought the same exept my 15 year old brother. Well i told this to my therapist and they suggested that I'd tell him the whole truth about me. Well I desiced to do so today when i was invited to babysit my younger siblings by my parents when they left for dinner ( moms 45:th aniversaty). I sneakily pulled him aside for a second when the kids went to the swings and told him the truth about my true gender and sexuality. Well, it went suprisingly well and almost instantly he told me that he didn't really care who I was since I was still important to him regardless of those facts. He told me that he'd also keep it a secret until I had enough courage to tell this to the rest of my family. He also told me that he didn't think that i was a creep nor a predator for being those ( that was what they had been basicly tought from the childhood), and told me that he'd respect my pronouns and my partners regardless of what gender they were. And the thing that made me the happiest is that he told me that i shouldn't hide those facts, since that's how god made you to be, and if he made me to be that way then i wasn't doing anything wrong by just being myself. And lastly he also told me that i was still as valid of an religious person regardless of those facts.
I'm sorry that this turned into a long paragraf but I'm just so happy and suprised that i was accepted as myself by him when almost everybody else of my close family would be against me, and when homofobic insults are so common amongst the teenagers nowdays.
And if you somehow see this: I love you Robert and you are the best brother I could've hoped for <3. Big sis is always here to support you if you have anything to talk about.