I found a couple of online support groups for transgendered people. One is a locally based group. As an aside, the security required to join these groups is intense. I know there is a reason for it, and the reason scares me. I have this feeling I just don't know what we're in for.
But that said, some of the most supportive e-mails I've gotten have been from transgender people. Especially the male-to-female. One said to me that she wishes that her mom had listened to her when she was younger. And more than one has said that they knew from the time they were three or four that they were transgenedered. In general, they have been supportive and extremely kind. The funny thing is that I don't think I would have given any one of them more than an eye roll if I had met them six months ago. And I feel ashamed of that. I stereotyped transgendered people in the way that my parents stereotyped races. Six months ago, I would have told you that I wasn't prejudiced. Looking back I know I was.
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