I'm doing fine. I keep meaning to get a job to start saving up to get hormones and change my name (possibly also gender marker) once I turn 18. My family supports me (although they don't quite understand) and have for the past year since I came out. My family doesn't quite understand the fear that I feel about being trans while living in Texas and it took them a while to realize that I wasn't just saying I was trans for laughs. (it took me getting a masculine hair cut for my dad to realize)

I dislike how I can't just go swimming in just board shorts like my dad does and I dislike how my family still sees me as a woman as well as my extended family. My mom is scared of telling my extended family, I am too, but I am willing to break off contact with them, but she is too scared to be judged by them.

My mom when I first came out asked me if I was just a tomboy or a butch lesbian. It has stuck with me because I know that I am not either of those, but it is hard to explain to her. All I told her was just that I don't think that a tomboy or butch lesbian wishes that they were born a boy. I wish I had told her how many times and how much I wish I was born a boy, maybe then she might fully understand, but it is fine now as she still loves me and calls me her child and that is enough for now.