Examiner.com – Joe Ippolito – Philadelphia Transgendered Relationships Examiner
Disclosing to a potential dating partner can be an anxiety producing experience for many “passing” transgender people. Passing is the ability to present oneself as a gender other than one assigned at birth and to live in an unrecognizable state in society as this new gender.
For some, the notion of being rejected because of their transgender identity is so terrifying they opt to remain “in the closet,” and end up not dating at all. For others, telling a potential dating partner may not be something they ever do…