I am a MTF Transgendered. I had been told By "The Ferrets" (my parents, they try to ferret out all means of me acting as my true self, Lemisha,) that Going out in public as a female could ruin my life and that it would get me hurt, both physically and emotionally. So one day when the ferrets werent pissing on my coat, I went out as Lemisha, I was nervous at first about getting out of my truck, but I got out and felt confident that I am who I am. No one Said anything, noone hurt me, and noone seemed to care, so obviously they tried to use the fear tactic to discourage me from expressing my self, but I do wonder, who and when will people try to hurt me the most? I came out to my friends and they actually knew before I told them, they were just waiting for me to come out on my own. I do also wonder is there a better method to going out than me diving in head first?