Fully supportive!

My immediate family is supportive, extended family I think is but I don’t see them much. My mom specifically told me she’s noticed I seem truly happy for the first time in my life.

My closest biological family is mostly in the tolerant to supportive range of things. Nobody’s perfect, obviously. Extended family is a mixed bag.

I’m actually not even sure what supportive means or looks like in this context. There are definitely close family members who don’t make me or my sexuality feel like I’m any different and who I can unmask around. Most people are probably more in the “tolerant” range, where as long as I mask up, don’t talk about it, and there’s no controversy, they’re okay with it on the surface. Still better than my pre coming out days when I had to hide everything, mask around everyone, and completely avoid certain situations entirely.

All in all, things aren’t bad. The worst I typically have to endure is having my partner called my “mate” instead of the terms they use for unmarried heterosexual partners, being told that Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA because of course gay, trans, and racial minorities have it so much better than them, and frequently having to “agree to disagree” on just about every topic related to trans people for simply existing. Fortunately, no physical violence or threats come my way, I don’t really use the social media platforms they do so I don’t get to see the worst of their thoughts, and they’re free to talk about me behind my back just the same as I am free to forget they exist except for a couple hours every other year around the holidays.

Fully!

When I was 17 and trying to be discreet my mum slowly worked it out of me. When I was 18 and learned what asexuality was and broke it to my parents my dad read up about it to understand it more.

When my boyfriend and I first started getting serious and he’d spend the odd weekend here, my mum would occasionally ask “when are we seeing [his name] again?”

She eventually succumbed to Alzheimer’s, but she never lost her loving nature. She was the salt of the earth - a role model for kindness and compassion who I was lucky to be raised by. I wish that for everyone.

Very. Am lucky in that regard. Am pan and my partner is trans. No big deal. Also my great uncle came out as gay a few years ago and even most of the family in his generation (he’s in his 60s now) are supportive. And recently my teenage sibling came out as trans and our parents are doing their best to get them the resources they need.

I have no idea what my father’s beliefs are or who he even really is but he doesn’t strike me as right wing. My mother is someone who would be accepting of other people but I’m not convinced that this acceptance would extent to me. My two older sisters who practically raised me would probably be accepting but still I’m scared of rejection in that regard.

Over all, if I had to break the news that I’m non-binary, first of all I’d probably have a bit of explaining to do of what non-binary even is in the first place. And I think they’d be accepting to my face but there would lots of phone calls and gossiping behind my back.

Supportive

Haven’t come out to any of them yet. They’re all pretty devout Catholics and live in a red state, and my brother has repeated some of the “the schools are teaching the kids to be trans” bullshit, so I don’t have high hopes for any of them being supportive. I think coming out would probably mean most, if not all, of them stop talking to me. They’re likely to be the last ones I ever come out to

My family? Totally. My relatives? Not so much. My parents barely tolerate me, which is why I choose my family over my relatives every day.

parents understand and support me

siblings (that im in contact with) support me, others i lost contact for other reasons before coming out

grandparents love me but genuinely dont understand trans people at a fundamental level, i still need to explain a lot to them

generally everyone ive come out to are supportive, everyone i havent dont even recognize me or think im one of my sisters so whatever lol

Haven’t come out, but in terms of the gradual changes, support from mom, the opposite from dad, brother 1 pretty neutral, haven’t seen brother 2 much.

Ive been completely cut off from my family for nearing a decade, so, not very lol

Hahahahaha… ha. 😢

• Brother: Chill
• Dad: Supportive of sexuality; on the fence about gender
• Mum: Supportive of sexuality; critical of gender
• Grandparents: Two of them are okay with homosexuality, but that’s about it. The other two read the Daily Express, so yeah…

It varies, most aren’t. I grew closer to the ones that supported me when I came out, like my aunts. The others I just sort of stopped talking to as it became clear they had no interest in changing their views.