“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”One of the things about transition that is essential to your building of healthy self-esteem is having a network of truly great friends around you.
But one important component of that network of truly great friends is having truly great trans friends as part of it.
Transition sometimes can feel like it's a lonely, grind it out process. For African-descended transwomen who don't have the support networks in place like our white transisters do, that sense of loneliness is magnified.
So it helps tremendously to have people in your corner who have your back and have an intimate understanding of what it's like to deal with issues that crop up during a gender transition.
While the ideal situation is to have that trans friend in the same locale with you, don't reject someone who could potentially be a truly great trans friend if there's a few hundred or a few thousand miles between you.
Hey, that's what IM and long distance calling is for.
