I came out to my parents (trans stuff) in late Feb, my mother said that she always knew. I suppose they do say that mother's have intuition about their children and everything going on with them. She's totally cool with it and said she always wanted a daughter. She even took me to get my ears pierced the other day. Coming out to my dad was probably the hardest thing I've ever done, but, my mom spoke to him over breakfast to kinda break the ice about it. He's not even a bad dude or some raging maga type, he's a good guy and I love him. I just imagine that given the current culture around masculinity and what not that it was probably the last thing he wanted to hear. He really took it fine though and said he'll do whatever it takes to help me out - he also told me a great story about a coworker he had that transitioned. I started HRT through Planned Parenthood a month ago and I feel great! At first I was really worried it was all just the placebo effect that you see so many people talk about online, but, I really do feel normal (if you want to call it that) - again, I don't know if it's placebo or Estrogen, but, I feel so much more calm now and not riddled with crippling anxiety. I fee like I can finally just breathe. Also, I feel like I'm focusing on skateboarding more and making strides. I wasn't bad or anything, but, the last year or so has been rough and I wasn't really able to push myself on the board properly because I just felt scatterbrained/disassociating or whatever the hell goes on with this type of stuff. I've always lurked this thread and would check when I first login to SLAP; Reading the posts in here really helped me out with regards to coming out and ya'll gave me some courage to express myself and say something. Also, shout out to Brianna Delaney (back tail queen) that Skating through Transition piece she did basically was one of the things that made me confront reality about my situation. Anyways, I just want to say that ya'll rock and are wonderful. (apologies if there's shitty grammar, punctuation, etc.).