Coming out to conservative family

[It'sAndrew345]

Im waiting until im living on my own, but im really nervous to come out to my family. My family is religious and conservative. Im nervous how they are going to react. I know of someone that just came out as a woman and my family made a lot of transphobic remarks. Does anyone have any suggestions or have gone through something similar?

[Jani]

I think knowing what you believe may happen, waiting until you are on your own is a good move.  I don't know how long that may be but in the meantime you can "prime the well" so to speak with comments about LGBT and specifically TG, news you read to see what their response is and to get your views out there.  A little conversation never hurts.   It's known that people who know an LGBT person are more likely to be accepting.  

 

Jani

[Ronin82]

I'm in a similar situation so I feel for you. I'm waiting until I can move out too, or at least until I can't hide it anymore.  Anticipating the reaction is the worst part of not knowing...I almost want to just get it over with so we can hash it out and move on! But not until I can survive on my own again.

[Zedarius]

I have been in that situation in the past. Is not a great place to be, and I had to make damn well sure that I had a definate place to go once I l told them. 

 

Telling my conservate religious family was terrifying. For the most part, they've been extremely supportive, while with two other members it ended badly (death threats, sent info on how to kill myself, etc.). 

 

I sincerely hope that you don't have to deal with any of that. With my family I had to take a more "plan for the worst, hope for the best" kind of mentality. I'm more than thrilled with how most of it went down. 

 

I do agree; waiting till you can get out (if you need to) is a good idea, along with "testing the waters" without getting wet - if you get what I mean ?

 

Testing it will give you a good idea of what to expect, before you tell all, if you don't alway know...