Oliver,I wasn't raised Catholic but converted as an adult. Not all Catholics are unsupportive of transgender people, but reading the Bible very literally leads a lot of people in the direction that there is a strong clear message that God hates this. Marcus Borg, who you can find. online explains these few scriptures very differently if your parents are ever interested.

But enough of that. If you want to say what is going on with your parents, you might tell them you know they love you and you have something you want to be honest about that is hurting.If they say it is just a phase let them know that you want to be sure of that too since it is causing you a lot of pain, and you would like to see a counselor because of the pain so you can get through the phase. The truth you will be able to share later with help from your counselor is that if you are transgender those really uncomfortable, painful feelings don't go away with counseling but they can be managed medically so you can have a great life as the gender you identify with.

It takes time for people who love us to wrap their heads around the idea that what is hurting us is real. Some medical researchers have found some differences in DNA in cisgender and transgender people, and that might mean that we react differen and are just built d I differently, no better or worse than God's other people if you are passing this along to parents.

Don't be too down if parents don't understand right away. This is new to them, too, and they will have to change a lot of their old ideas. You are so brave to be honest with your parents. I bet it will work out over time. I'really proud of you.

Liam

Thank you. I plan on telling them today :)

Hi, finally did you tell them? How did it go? I really hope their reaction wasn't so bad. I was raised catholic too, but my parents reaction was much better than what I expected, I'm interested how your parents reacted

Make sure you have options of places to stay for a worst case scenario of getting kicked out. Try not to use their religion against them unless they use it against you. Hope you're okay.

It is never just a phase, too many people jump to this conclusion. Also sadly many people jump to this because they HOPE it is just a phase. But people don't simply go threw "a phase" on the account that they hate their physical gender. Also sadly I have not read the catholic bible because I am a spiritualist (a religion involving many different beliefs from many different religions), but one thing my grandma always reminded me of is that God loves everyone regardless of gender as long as they are not evil. She was a great woman and had an unbelievable relationship with God, and yes she was Catholic as well. This is what she told me when I got worries about God shunning me for being trans. So please think about this and don't worry, God is suppose to love everyone!

Also I will tell you right now Gay is NOT the same as Transgender! Being Gay is a Sexuality, being transgender is a Gender Identity. There for it should not be considered the same as Gay or Lesbian or any of that crap.