This is something of personal choice, only you can answer the question and act accordingly. I can only give you my experience. Being brought up with an older generation family as I was, adopted, hence being the youngest of my brothers and sisters. They don't know, and they don't need to, the same goes for work.
But I go to a group that knows, my neighbour knows due to a ring doorbell, the places I visit, a few people I talk to and recently on my holiday. Both my parents (foster) are dead and (birth) parents, did not know. It's like living two lives, it can have its advantages as in I can leave all my worries in my male side and let my female side be free.
Where I live, I can't just get into my car and go as some of my neighbours, don't know. But when I was on holiday I let the owners know that I was transgender, they had no problem with it, I was able to come and go as I wish.
As to parents, only you can answer if they would accept you as being transgender? I would have loved it if my mother allowed me to be dressed as her daughter, having personal time together on passing information to each other as in make-up tips, clothes, etc… being transgender doesn't mean you want to be fully a woman, only if you are 100% sure.
I am happy being myself (Julie) I consider Julie to be my female self as if I was born a woman. I know this is hard for not transgender people to understand. If you are transgender, you will know about it and will not be able to stop. If you have a need to purge (get rid of your female clothes etc...) I would not suggest it a being transgender, you will start again. I have done it and with in a week you will replace the things you have thrown out. It's like a test, there is no right or wrong, it's just confirmation on your state of mind.
I do have a theory that we are born both sexes to the brain, the determination of the sex of the body, the brain then can adjust to the sex. But I believe the brain can access the other sex. In the womb, we are female, only the chemicals determine our body sex.
If I could go back in time to when I was eleven and everything was acceptable, I would have considered in having a sex change, but now at my age I have accepted transgender is enough to live the rest of my life.
So be happy and be honest with yourself, or your life is a lie.
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