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Coming out to a large family

by Emma on February 26, 2012

I can think of 25 people in my family that I have had to come out to. Coming out to such a large group of personally influential people takes a monumental effort and a great deal of time (surprisingly). I believe that it took me four months to track down every family member that I [...]

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Being Trans at Work

by Emma on January 30, 2012

I’m no slacker. I bet you thought I just wrote fancy stuff all the time for pay, didn’t you? The truth is, I also assemble air ducts. Yep, All 5 feet 5 inches and 140 pounds of me assembles air ducts on an assembly line right along with a bunch of foul mouthed alpha males. [...]

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Why couldn’t he have just been honest?

January 4, 2012

In this article Emma addresses the significant others of crossdressers.  If you’re stumbling across this article because you are feeling lost, lonely, confused, frightened, or frantic due to the discovery of your husband or significant other’s hidden crossdressing needs I would love for you to pause and take this article in. I will try to [...]

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Emma’s Coming Out Story

December 18, 2011

In this post Emma talks about coming out, first at a young age, and then later as an adult. I came out to my mother one crisp autumn evening just before she left for work. I was fourteen years old, sitting in my childhood garage playing Mario Kart, and thinking about the skirt I bought [...]

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Does transgender therapy work?

March 15, 2010

In my last post I talked about how several years ago I came to the point where I knew I needed help. I was either headed down the road to depression and likely suicide, or I needed to find a way to ‘cure’ myself or get treatment for my transgender issues (I didn’t know it [...]

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Coming out to my parents

June 28, 2009

It felt so good not to have to hide this part of myself any more that I really did want to tell the world – convinced that they would be as accepting as my girlfriend had been. I’ve seen both my parents and the rest of my family quite a few times over the last couple years, but the moment never seemed right. That moment finally came a few weeks ago.

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Does he want to be a woman?

August 17, 2008

When a husband or boyfriend comes out to you as transgender, or crossdresser it’s easy to make an assumption that this means they’ll want a sex change. But that’s not necessarily the case.

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Ten ways to handle “the conversation”

July 12, 2008

For some people, finding out that their spouse or lover is a transgendered person or a crossdresser can be a shock. People who have been married for years, can feel betrayed and disappointed. For others, it can be a small deal or even a positive outcome to what might have been an emotionally charged first conversation.

You may have already been told that your loved one is a crossdresser, but if not – if you suspect it – here are ways that you can initially react or cope with the news.

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The Crossdresser’s Wife

June 14, 2008

My loving and supportive wife talks about the day I told her I was transgendered. “A few years ago I had been wondering what was wrong with my boyfriend. Over the period of a few months when I would prod him he refused to tell me why he was so depressed. Finally, he told me he had decided to see a therapist to figure out what was wrong. A few days later, with trepidation written all over his face, he told me he needed to talk to me…”

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