I can't really relate to this, but I'm thinking that perhaps you feel betrayed on some level, because you knew this person as one gender, and now the person is telling you they want to be another gender.
This is a complicated issue, and I personally think it's one of those issues where it's not uncommon for one to have a myriad of different emotions, even experience somewhat of a cognitive dissonance. I personally think that a good policy that one can adopt would simply be to tell oneself, "there but for me grace of God go I".
I'm fine with already-trans people, but not people I know "coming out"?
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I can't really relate to this, but I'm thinking that perhaps you feel betrayed on some level, because you knew this person as one gender, and now the person is telling you they want to be another gender.
This is a complicated issue, and I personally think it's one of those issues where it's not uncommon for one to have a myriad of different emotions, even experience somewhat of a cognitive dissonance. I personally think that a good policy that one can adopt would simply be to tell oneself, "there but for me grace of God go I".
I hope my comments have been of some help.