Multiple times weekly, my friends and coworkers are the best support system I could have asked for.
In general it's a chance to have a shoulder to cry on, maybe someone to turn my perspective and see the brighter side of a situation (I'm prone to doom spiraling).
The only time it really goes poorly is when it's issues related to my transition, the cis friends I have just don't get it, and they try to be supportive but my experience is so alien to them they usually can't.
Yeah it actually weirdly suprised me when my cis SO said they couldn't really understand what the big deal was about my gender for me, and they said they wouldn't care if they were a guy or a girl, it's just not important to them. I guess our experience is pretty strange and alien to cis people which is weirdly validating... before my egg cracked, even then I felt like I understood/identified with trans people because I had always kinda wanted to be a girl but just told myself it was impossible
Multiple times weekly, my friends and coworkers are the best support system I could have asked for.
In general it's a chance to have a shoulder to cry on, maybe someone to turn my perspective and see the brighter side of a situation (I'm prone to doom spiraling).
The only time it really goes poorly is when it's issues related to my transition, the cis friends I have just don't get it, and they try to be supportive but my experience is so alien to them they usually can't.
Yeah it actually weirdly suprised me when my cis SO said they couldn't really understand what the big deal was about my gender for me, and they said they wouldn't care if they were a guy or a girl, it's just not important to them. I guess our experience is pretty strange and alien to cis people which is weirdly validating... before my egg cracked, even then I felt like I understood/identified with trans people because I had always kinda wanted to be a girl but just told myself it was impossible