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COMING OUT STORIES You are visitor # since June 15, 1998

	This is a place where people can read the "Coming out stories" of myself and other people. If you would like to submit your story just E-mail me it, and I will post it A.S.A.P..

	I believe if more people share their stories, good or bad, that we can help even more people say the right things to people. My own stories is short and to the point. If I could do it over again I would.

	STORY OF MICHELLE BRODEUR: After having been through a very depressing two months, I gave up hiding who I was to myself. So I decided to tell my parents. I couldn't face my father so asked my mother to come to the basement with me. I sat on the washer and told her straight out, Mom this isn't your fault or anyone else's. But I'm a transsexual, I have know this my whole life. I have always felt like a girl. She said "Are you saying you want to be a girl". I said: Yes. She said: "Come on Andre, don't be foolish". I told her, I don't expect you to understand, it's just the way I am. She asked me If I would tell my father, I said I couldn't, could she. She did and nothings was every mentioned about it again. Not the best way to handle it, but I had no one to talk to about this. The following is what happen when I found out I wasn't getting enough from OSAP( Ontario Student Assisstant Program) for school, there just wouldn't be enough for rent and food for 4 month. Government doesn't care much. So I had to re-explain to my parents about myself and hope that they would let me live with them for the four months and be who I know I am. What happend on the weekend of August 2-3... My weekend was this pits. When I approached my grandmother and told her I had something to tell her she saw how nervous I was and said what is the matter. Are you going to die. I said no, nothing that serious. Well she said what ever it is just say it. I told her it isn't easy for me to say this. Then out of the blue she said, what, are you going to tell me you want to be a girl. I was shocked, how did she know. I asked her why she said that, she said someone told someone who told someone who told her last year that I wanted to be a girl. I only told Marta (my EX), who told her boys, who probably told my youngest brother, but she said no it wasn't Paul, that she couldn't tell me. I told her how I felt my whole life and she said she can't believe something like that. That I was born a man and will die one. She is 84 and stuck in her small world. She never did answer my question if I could still come and visit, she got off the topic. I even quoted her some bible quotes. She didn't care. My father wouldn't look at me and my mother said she doesn't believe it either. After I tried to explain things through tiers for over 1/2 hour I gave up and packed and took my child and left. While I packed my mother asked "Why didn't you tell us this sooner." First fo all I told them in Feb 96 and as if it would have made a difference how early I told them. I said as I left, you have my number, my father said in a cold voice, "OK, Fine". I don't expect to here from them again. When I got back to my apartment my friends tell me I'm out because he will have a new roommate in Sept. So now I have no family, no place to live to go to school, OSAP won't give me enough thats for sure, now no job for Sept or place to live, Other than that, I'm just peachy.

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