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My aunt (mom’s side) just came out as MTF transgender and both me, my mom, and dad and fully accepting of her. My mom told my grandma(dad’s side) about my aunt being transgender. She asked my mom “and you’re okay with that?” Then me and my mom were like??
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Anonymous 20h

My mom replied with “why wouldn’t I be okay with that?” And the look on my grandmas face was pure disgust. Before we told her she wanted to invite my aunt to her family retirement party. But now that my grandma knows this about her idk how she’s going to feel about her coming

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Anonymous 19h

Despite your grandma that’s so awesome you guys are like that as a family unit, I’m sure she’s very appreciative especially considering she’s probably middle aged. I feel like a lot of older trans people just “suck it up” and never come out because of the worse stigma they grew up with and feeling like it’s “too late”

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Anonymous 14h

my brother came out as FTM trans semi recently, and while i think my whole family is accepting (i’m not too sure ab my older brother still), they tend to use female pronouns for safety reasons bc of where we live. however, i try to do my best to remind my brother how masculine he’s looking. i know it just makes his day :)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

My aunt is the only family that my mom has left. Both of their parents are dead, and it’s just them. My mom is also very accepting and educated on trans stuff and same with me. Like the fact that she questioned if my mom was “okay” with my aunt transitioning is odd. I just hope my grandma don’t start anything or say somthing rude to her

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

We are so proud of her and I’m so glad that both my mom and dad are very accepting! She doesn’t interact with my grandma on my dad’s side much, so I just hope my grandma can bite her tongue bc I’m going to be defending my aunt tooth and nail. I don’t play when it comes to bigotry

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

Good!!! That makes my heart happy for her 🫶🏼

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

i’m also in college pretty far away so everyone i know there thinks he’s biologically my brother. they can’t even tell that he was born female. it’s sad how much danger he could be in just by going to school bc of how unaccepting people are here :/

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