Transition Doesn’t Just Happen to You, But to Everyone Around You
<p>A lot of people who transition tend to forget that while this is a journey for you it’s also a journey for others around you. I’m not saying you should give into transphobia, that’s not what I’m saying in the slightest.</p>
<p>I came out in 2013, right after band practice. I remember it very vividly: I had been dropping a few hints here and there, as if my mom would catch on, as if she just knew this was it… this was the day her child would come out to her. It was around nine p.m. on a Tuesday night. We got home, and I said to her, ‘I have something to tell you.’ I rushed to my bedroom and grabbed the book I had been reading for about five months prior. Now I just want to be clear that it didn’t take me five months to read the book, I had been reading it over and over again because I just felt so seen and connected the book was called ‘Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man’ by Chaz Bono.</p>
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