It involves both exploring your identity and sharing your identity with others. Coming out can be a gradual process or one that is very sudden. Coming out can be a very difficult process. For gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons, there may be a sense of being different or of not fitting in to the roles expected of you by your family, friends, workplace or greater society.

This guide provides ways to respond and how not to respond when someone comes out to you as transgender. Like many other languages, Hebrew assigns each noun a gender. Plural nouns work similarly: Plural masculine nouns in Hebrew—including any group of people that includes at least one man—typically end in -im, while feminine nouns end in -ot. Male camper: chanich Female camper: chanichah Gender-neutral: chanichol. Male campers: chanichim Female camper: chanichot Gender-neutral: chanichimot.

LGBTQ people are under attack in state legislatures. Help us fight back. In the United States, gender is often presented to us as the mutually unchangeable opposites of either male or female. The truth is that gender is a rich, broad spectrum that comes in as many forms as there are people.