If you are reading this, you do wanna tell them and you are already thinking of ways to do so. All I can really say is that timing is a big part of it. Sometimes it’s better to just tell them and get it over with so everyone has time to deal with it. In other cases it is best to wait for the right time. YOU AND ONLY YOU WILL KNOW THE BEST TIME TO TELL THEM!! Everyone is different and they all deal with shit in their own way. So I can’t TELL you HOW to tell them! YOU AND ONLY YOU KNOW THE BEST WAY TO TELL THEM!! I can tell you how I told my parents!
I just admitted to myself that it’s ok to be transgendered, so I really wasn’t thinking that great. I did know I had to tell my mom like RIGHT NOW!! I was sitting at the computer crying like some pussy, and I printed out some FTM Info. I ran up to my mom shoved the papers in her face and yell “THAT’S ME DAMMIT!!!” and ran off to my room. I know my mom, and I knew she would be able to figure it out and still be able to deal. My mom is kosher with me. It’s not like a changed that much. All I did was cut off my hair and ask people to call me HE and NICK. LOL She still calls me my stupid birth name; I think she does it to piss me off.
I have never been able to get along with my dad!! We clash BIG TIME! We can’t even be around each other for more then a day, we start yelling at each other about EVERYTHING!! He has to have it his way or no way at all and I can’t deal with people telling me how to act! So this was not how I really wanted to tell him but I thought I had no other choice at the time. I called him on the phone and told him that I feel like a guy, but I’m stuck in this stupid chick body. My dad is an asshole so he told me that, “Face it! You were born and girl you still are a girl and you will always be a girl!” MOTHERFUCKER!! He can kiss my ASS!! Well a year later when Boys Don’t Cry came out, I took him to see it (I really tough it was gonna help… NOT!). That was not a good idea! After the movie we walked down to the car and he told me that I could still have a job like a cop or something and still be a girl. I got so pissed off I got out of the car yelling at him in front of LOTS of people and then took off. I walked all the way to my sister’s house in the dark crying. Now after almost 4 years he is starting to realize it’s not really a big deal. He even calls me Nick SOMETIMES!
