Warning: I am going to complain and hope not to sound offensive or pessimistic.
I went to the family support group last night. It was really great to hear other parents talk about their experiences with gender variant or transgender children. It affirmed my feelings about Jet and took away some confusion about the situation.
Even so, I began to realize that the majority of families involved with this group have trans-female children. Boys who identify as girls. This really shouldn’t matter. I feel awful for feeling like it does. I guess I just hoped there would be more families with girls who identified as boys. It was harder to relate to these families than I thought it would be.
There was one opinionated person who had a comment about everything, and one person who dominated the conversation. I guess there’s one of these in every group of people. I felt kind of alone.
I feel kind of like a minority within a minority. That probably sounds awful. It feels like people see a girl who looks like a boy differently than a boy who looks like a girl. It’s definitely a societal thing which does have basis in sexism but it’s not really helping my need to feel connected.
I’m sorry if I offended anyone reading. I am probably way off base. It was hard for me to go to the group and now I just don’t feel like talking to anyone.
mytomboy 