Telling your family about your decision to enter transition
I don't know how good my advise will be in this situation, but I'll give it a try.
I'll be getting some help on this one from my girlfriend and a few other friends (and running up a long-distance
bill in the process.... but that's ok), as I'm really not the best person to advise on this. My personal recommendation
in this case, if you [the reader] are interested in entering into transition, would be to sit down with your parents
(who should be the first people you tell) and discuss the issue of transexualism in general, but don't make any
references to the fact that you want to transition just yet.
Feel them out on the issue first, try to figure out how you think they will react when you tell them. Once you have
done that and educated them a bit, I think that you might want to consider planning carefully what you are going
to say when you tell them, and when you're going to do it. I'm sure that this would make me very nervous,
and I have been told that it certainly isn't an easy thing to do, but it must be done at some point, so I would
think that you'd want to get the worst over with first (I would, anyway).
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