[Samantha Rogers]

Something concerning this came up recently in a conversation I had with a TS friend from another board.Personality and how well liked a person is as a male will affect how people react to that individual when they come out, either as CD or TS. For instance. someone who is extremely lovable/likable is more likely to find their friends going the extra mile to accept them than is someone whom orher people merely tolerate or try to get along with. When an extremely obnoxious or unlikable person comes out they are likely to see many "friends" happy to have an excuse to dump them. I think this explains some of why we see some people come out so successfully, maintaining their marriage, work and friends while others lose all of that. Of course it is no where near that simple, but I think it is a factor. Post transition or post op TS who are extremely bitter and negative may well have been so all along.