checkout this web link, you just might find the book your looking for here: http://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/transgender

Thank you Rhonda, those aren't really what I was seeking. I'm looking more for a "How to tell your parents..." ya know? But it's okay, because I don't even think my local Barnes and Noble as a LGBT category. I looked all over and never saw anything :( So I might surf around on my nook and see what I can find, but I still appreciate your help and anyone else's who may know what book I'm trying to think of

http://www.amazon.com/True-Selves-Understanding-Transsexualism--For-Professionals/dp/0787967025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373472345&sr=8-1&keywords=true+selves

that is the one I had my family read (the ones willing to). I had come out to them already it was just to help them understand exactly what it meant and what I was going through. My doctor had recommended it to me for that reason. As far as how to come out, that is very individualized, in my case, I just told my mom as she knew I was going back into therapy again. She kept my secret and didn't let on to anyone until I told her it was okay. I spent a lot of time talking with my niece about various things and she is one of those people that is "people should be able to be themselves no matter what" So coming out to her dad (my brother) and my other siblings I asked her how to, she offered to tell her dad for me, he then told my other sibling who called me and asked questions :P so I took a few different methods. The all got a copy of the book, and I know a few of them read it and in the end they better understood exactly what it was I had been and am going through.

Oh and no Barns and Nobel doesn't have anything related to LGBT as it is a Christian based book store. You would have to find it on amazon or something like that.

Wow, I didn't know that about Barnes & Noble

I didn't until a few years back, Borders went out of business so i went into one to look for some books on metaphysical type things (I was looking for a book on crystals and the healing potential in them) anyway, they didn't even have a section for it. They had like 5 books on ghosts and that was as close as they got. I asked the people that worked there and they said they had never seen a section or any books there on that topic. Did some research online and found some thing about that they started out as a christian only books store and won't carry certain forms of material that goes directly against the christian belief system. If they did have anything LGBT related, it would likely be a very small area, and if you want anything metaphysical you won't find it there at all.

Thank you Wynd for the book suggestion. I'll have to check it out, see if I can find it somewhere. Barnes & Noble I think is the only bookstore around here, since you know, they don't really last these days. I went on to Barnes and Noble's website, however, right before I left for therapy that night and just searched 'Transgender' and actually quite a few suggestions popped up. So that's why I was hoping maybe I'd find something there. But when I got there I saw they had a rather large Christian section, so I knew I probably wouldn't find anything. Unless it was something like "You're gay, you're going to hell" something like that. But yeah, I might check online, maybe there's something I can buy on my nook and just read it that way. But I did pick up "How to tell if you're cat is plotting to kill you" very funny read lol :D

*giggles* i can sum that book up... is your cat a cat? If yes, run its plotting to kill you :P

I actually like cats, but i still think they are evil in fur :P

Lol! It's such a funny read! Only shame in it is it's more like a comic style thing, so you can breeze through the book in about a half hour. But I was literally cracking up through the whole thing because it's so true! Like the things cats do, just makes you wonder why they do them and what the "true" meaning is behind their crazy antics lol