Some more out than in

The thing about University is that a percentage of your friends hail from far flung corners of this sceptred isle so meeting up is a rare event. We managed to meet this week though. The thought of telling my two best friends about my trans-ness was the furthest thing from my mind but I ended up telling them. One had recently been very disappointed to find that someone that she had thought was a friend turned out to be a thoughtless, disloyal, trouble-maker. It reminded me that we trust people to show themselves honestly as who they are and feel most at ease and able to talk to friends who we know are trustworthy. As a result this rare face to face meeting and in the light of how we feel about honestly showing ourselves as we are it seemed a good time to tell the select two of my trans-ness. There wasn't time to discuss it but as I expected this new information didn't make any difference to them. A slight shock of course but nothing they can't handle. I said to them, what you saw and know as me was and still is me. I told them because I consider them as lifelong friends and honesty is something we value and on which our friendship is based.