Do you think your siblings would accept it?

Given time, yeah.

Worrying about the family is why it took me until I was 26 to go through with seeing transistion.

I accept you @Emma
It is more difficult for people who have an idea of what they think you are, though. You change that for them, and they don't want to accept it. Does that make sense at all?

It took six months to get hormones.

They'll kick and scream only so long as they think they have a chance of "talking me out of it" and in two months, the next family gathering, it'll be too late to safely stop taking the hormones.

None of my friends had any trouble with it.

Only person I lost was this really annoying person I had been trying to get rid of for a long time anyway.

@Emma friends have less 'investment' - so to speak. It can't be easy for a parent. Not that it has to be, I still think if anyone has a problem then that's their own issue.

I am adopted. My birth mom and current mom are sisters.

My birth mom and half brother accepted it instantly and didn't have the slightest issue with it.

Not sure what that really means - I mean, your adoptive parents are still your parents. Am I missing something?

I consider them to be.

I was adopted for a good reason and I'd have been way, way worse off if they didn't take me in.

Are they religious?

Yes

oic

Did they say that was at the root of their discontent?

sorry for prodding

"god gave us a son and he wouldn't take that away"

well there we are then

Do you have a problem with them thinking of you always as their son?

Since I was 3.

Not that I understood exactly what all those feelings meant then.

It's something that is only clear in hindsight.

thanks for indulging me - I really like hearing a multitude of perspectives.

I don't mind curiousity.

Must be similar to coming out as Atheist in a religious family. It sounds about the same, in many ways.

Already did that with them.

They kicked and screamed for a while until they realized I wasn't going to back down.

The advice I tend to hear is - don't make a big deal out of it, just continue to be yourself and they might accept it easier, etc.

More or less what I was going to do

You should call into the Atheist Experience, that would be awesome

get on puiblic access and the interwebs

Aren't they a little SJWy?

not generally - only if someone calls in and wants to argue against feminism, but they heavily focus on religion/atheism

There is a local atheist group that helped me out a bit with this already.

no, I wouldn't say that. but matt dillahunty (one of the hosts) is pretty careful with his words

What do you believe and why is 90% of it

I wasn't saying for help - just to be on tv, and to help others

The AE is for the benefit of those watching