http://www.videojug.com/interview/life-as-a-transgender-person-2

http://tgmentalhealth.com/2009/12/26/thoughts-on-coming-out-as-transgender-to-family/


http://www.ohio.edu/lgbt/resources/transcomingout.cfm

    There are FAR more misconceptions about trans people than gay people.


http://www.ohio.edu/lgbt/resources/transcomingouttoprofessors.cfm

    - Explain what "transgender" means to me.

        - God.  If Gene asks me about TEH SURGERY, I guess I'll talk about it.
          No, I WILL talk about it.  If I care about the possibility of a future relationship, then
          I DO need to be calm and polite, even about things that sometimes grate on me.
          I can CHOOSE to not let them grate on me!


http://www.sexuality.org/authors/henkin/ls11.html

    - Possibly explain the differences between GLB and T, though don't get too heady.

    - certain men of all orientations seem to have an unspoken and maybe equally unrecognized belief
      that if some other male-bodied person wants to cut off his penis he poses some sort of threat
      to theirs

    - According to Riki Anne Wilchins, Executive Director of GenderPAC, her organization’s National
      Survey of TransViolence reveals “that the most common epithet used when [transpeople] are
      bashed is ‘faggot.’ Transpeople are targeted because of the perception that we are gay. And
      gays are often picked out because they are ‘visibly queer,’ that is, because they are
      gender-different.” (Wilchins, 1999).

    - With lesbian women, as with gay men, it is usually not so much a question of whom a person
      sleeps with, but her appearance and comportment as gender-different that first earn her
      discriminatory enmity.

    - It seems to me that coming out with any apparent sex- or gender-transgressive behavior excites
      fears and antagonisms among people who feel their own VALUES are being transgressed; and, to
      the extent that they identify with those values, who feel their very selves are being
      transgressed as well.

    - as soon as you say “I’m not a girl” or “I’m not a boy,” people point to your body, sometimes
      literally, and tell you you’re wrong about your very own identity. ... Where sex is concerned,
      including orientation, a person’s VALUE may be questioned and demeaned, but where gender is
      concerned the person’s IDENTITY itself is indicted