I have come out to my mother
Slightly good new slight bad news depending on how you see things.
But I have just come out to my mother, she was understood my position and appreciated my feelings but where cautious in accepting them. This is because this is a big change in my life and how she worries for my future with this change, but also in how before she can fully accept she wants me to go through support networks to talk about all of this before I start to medically transitioning. Cause talking to one of my friends who has slightly gone through this process (they are non binary) isn’t really good enough (but a good starting point) and how talking about it in the internet on this Reddit isn’t acceptable at all due to “how many people will lie and manipulate you”
For the most part while I want to start the process of transitioning this summer I have conceded to my mother that i won’t and that when I go to uni I will access there support network first and won’t try anything until after the new years just so she can have more confidence in this being a good choice and not something that I will regret. This does slightly annoy me as I wanted to start the process sooner rather then later, however I don’t want to cause my mother anymore worry then necessary with this process.
While at uni I will probably still start the process in terms of social in things like voice training and working out to get better body proportions and stuff other then HRT, but it does sorta annoy me.
my mother has said that at the end of the day she can’t really stop me as I am 18 but would want me to do this first just so she feels better about all of this.
I most likely won’t come out to the rest of my family until after the new year just so I have more backing cause my father will be a lot more critical (not because he doesn’t like trans people but because that’s just who he is).
But over all I have taken the first step, and hopefully not the last