Okay, now I shall give a brief synopsis of my coming out to my parents.  It was sometime in February when I sent a vague email to my mother with such phrases like "I would like to start living full time as a male" that sounded affected but hopefully got the message across.  My mother already had some knowledge of this from a botched attempt at age 13 when I thought I was androgyne and the school counselor told her (with my permission, which I gave because I didn't understand what was going on).  She told my father (with my consent), and she said he reacted calmly.  My mother, I think, accepts that I will eventually transition, although she does not understand my motivation in the slightest.  My father thinks that it is a phase, even though I have felt this way for years.  My therapist makes no efforts to convince him otherwise because she has the same fears.  I am unsure how I am ever going to get my father to think differently.  He hasn't made any progress, and I think it is because he refuses to ever look at it in a different light.  When he says he wants to talk, he really just wants to say his opinion, and I rarely get a word in edgewise.  However, I am glad I came out.  Although I will still probably have to wait until 18 to transition, at least I don't feel guilty about it.  Before when I agonized over how long I'd have to wait to be myself, a small voice in the back of my head would say "You haven't even made an effort.  Come out!"  Now I have made all possible efforts (well, not all, I still need to come to some people, initiate further discussion with my father, etc.), and I can say "Hey, it's not my fault!"  Well, enough of that.