Loved the comic 8D!!

Beautiful.

I cried.

I wish i had a mother like that..

Thank you for creating this.

I have to admit, the whole TS thing is kinda weird to me, whether it's FtM or MtF, but your comic is very well-done and I enjoy reading it. It has a sense of realism to it, as opposed to the standard "oh-everything-is-fine-now-let-us-see-sex" comics. It has emotion to it, which is nice to see.

This was very well done and very beautiful. <3

You must continue this comic!

This was a really sweet comic, and you did a very nice job with it. Well done I know almost everyone is saying this, but it goes for me too, I wish my mom was like this.

I'm a little curious, will there be more to this in the future?

Thanks. There will be other stories about these characters in the future.

Don't suppose there's going to be a sex-change operation involved, is there?

I hope there's more to this than that.
Great comic and has a great driving story. Please keep it up.
Also Kitsunami i know you from Furmorphed!!!
Best of luck to you all and please make more!!!

oh?

*whistles*

Lies.

Holy cow. you two are from Furmorphed?! 0w0 good luck to the both of you! (I'm from there too ^^ )

Honestly Ive been stalking the comic since the first page, I love the fact that it wasn't pals point of view you was looking at but the mothers. a mother always worries about her child, you captured that well. excellent work and hope to see more someday

I loved the comic and as a transgendered person it really hit home with me. I just hope tthat my own comming out is that easy.

Best of luck :)

My own was a worst case scenario :(

So emotional :3 Thanks for creating this comic, I know it touched a lot of people~

So when and where can I buy a copy?

Eventually I'm going to draw the other stories that I've mentioned about these characters and put them all together in a book, which I will sell. I don't know when this will be.

I rarely bother to do such a thing, but i would buy that.

I thank you so much for doing this... I feel a little better about myself now because of it ^.^ I would love to see more

This is beautiful. Also, Emily is a cute name. :3

Good comic this is. Like it I do.

Extremely well written. I hope this continues at some point.

MOAR!

Fantastic comic! and like what vulpyra says- MOAR! :D

Wow, that was great!

very nice comic. would love to see more from you.

A very sweet ending. Nice work - you've done a wonderful comic. It'll be interesting to see continuations of it when you do do them :)

wow....thats....thats like when my mom found out i was gay. i was really depressed about it and didn't wanna tell anyone and she insisted we go out to a gay club. she helped me fit in perfectly. very powerful indeed. i guess it did help she is gay too though XD

great story.

~QTB

I absolutely loved it! I wants more!!!

i love this comic and think it was well done indeed, hope to see more of it or other such works in the future :P

Ghods, abso-damn-lutly beutiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just fav'd the entire thing!

I'm sorry I missed this being posted. I'd like to see some sort of chapter two or something. it struck all too close to home with me.

applauds

That was short yet sweet.
Any chances we're getting more?
I admit, it touched me, and that's alot for something like this.
I'm hardly touched like so.
*3 thumbs up*

That was simply awesome.

Wonderful all te way through, of course. The cross-posting link, as promised, follows below:

http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/05.....s_of_sugar.php

Thanks. The realism is something I want to address when I expand the story for a book. Though I don't think it's unrealistic for a parent to try and be accepting, since I know it has happened, I do think it's a bit unrealistic for it to happen the very next day after coming out. I want to make a bit more of a gradual transition from "this is scary and I don't like it" to "I'm doing my best to deal with it."

*trying to type an intelligent comment, but is too busy dripping saltwater on the keyboard*

I give congrats to a most wonderful tale ^.^

Great work. ^_^

aaaawww... the ending is sweet... I wish both characters the best of luck ;~;

Beautiful.
it took my mother 2 years to even TRY to openly accept me. she's still not comfortable but at least will see me as me now. Think she's just reaching a point where she wants to see me happy. :3

Great, I'm not nominally into this kind of thing but this was simply spectacular it's just a shame it ended i would of loved to read more of it if there were more pages.

it would be a very unique comic that for sure xp

You should deffinately continue this. I can realte so well to Emily, feeling like no one understands, and never will. I wish my mom was like hers, at least she's trying. I can also understand Terry's fears, and why she can't tell her husband. It's scary.

OH NO!! THE END!!! please make more for it!! brilliant story, makes me wanna be a girl hehe

id love to see more comics of emily =3

great comic it was amazing

There are more stories about these characters coming in the future. But yes, Paul (Emily) will eventually live completely as a female and get surgery to become as physically female as possible. This doesn't mean she'll act out a stereotype though, she just wants to be herself.

Aww, too bad it's ending, ("for now" atleast.). I've loved the series thus far, thank you again for creating this. It kind of helped me understand my moms reactions to me a little, though I still do envy the mother in the comic. ^^;

wow, thumbs up dude, liked it a lot and wish that happened more often to ppl who cross

You know, I am not personally transexual, but I know several of them and they would for sure appreciate this comic, I sure did. I realllly want like a sequel to this for some reason, I want to know what happens to the characters lol

Thank you for doing this, the effort is awesome

I do have an artist question - if that's okay? How do you determine how large to make the boxes when you make the comics? I've been planning on making my own, but the boxes always come out cruddy for me.

The size and shape of each panel depends on several things:

- The visual content of the panel. For example, if you have a panel depicting two characters sitting on opposite sides of a couch, well that panel would probably be wide rather than tall. But a panel depicting a skyscraper would probably be tall rather than wide.
- The textual content of the panel. This is pretty straight-forward: a panel needs to be big enough to fit whatever dialogue bubbles it needs, and there still needs to be enough space for the visual content of the panel without looking cramped.
- The pacing of the scene. A big panel with little or no action (the second panel of this page, for example) slows things down and can be useful to give a greater sense of setting and atmosphere, whereas as series of small panels can be used to show a sequence of actions that happen in quick succession.
- The emotional intent of the panel. This is harder to explain, but something happening in a big panel feels different from the same thing happening in a tiny panel. You can use size to emphasize a panel at either extreme, either that it's so big and takes up half the page (see page 9 of this comic) or is tiny and claustrophobic and crammed into the bottom right corner.
- The size and shape of the panels around it. The page has to function as a unit, with the panels supporting each other. Personally, I try to create the whole layout in my head at once. But if that doesn't work for you, then you can try focus on one panel that you feel is most important and decide the size and shape of it as well as where it is on the page. After that you can build the other panels around it.

I dunno how helpful this will be, but really the best thing you can do is practice (the next best thing to do is read comics and look at how they're layed out). Just keep trying different techniques and you'll get better.

Read the whole thing just now. This is one of those stories where you don't even have to be a trans in order to enjoy it. Good work.

I loved reading this comic, it's a shame it doesn't continue.

I can complety relate with hir about dressing, though i've kept mine private by being told to do so.

Beautiful and touching story, loved it :3

Great comic. ^^

This is a great little comic. I hope to see the story continue. ^^

I cried the first time I read it... and i cried this time, too. ^^;

It's been months since I saw this...and still it touches me...I may print all this and staple it into a comic and giving it to my mom and dad.

I do hope you do add more to this Comic and when it becomes a book I will want a copy! You make the characters real and at times that hard to do.

And to all the my TG brothers and sisters if you need someone to talk to I'll lend an ear or shoulder. I lost count of the nights I cried myself to sleep and feeling very alone in the world. I wish the internet had been around when I started transition the first time in 1982! The good thing was the 2nd time I didn't look back. The thing that makes me sad is I spent ten more years being male...

Paws

I usualy dont do any replies, because my English isn't very good, but I want to let you know, that you did a great job.

You have my respect!

I hope you don't mind the mass favorites so long after you posted this. But I only found this series a little while ago, and a lot of it really hits close to home. I've never been in the same situation as Emily, but maybe just because I'm better at hiding. Needless to say, I think you hit her feelings dead on.

I'll have to say... thank you, very much. i myself am transfemale: pre-op but little hope due to the economy and the area I'm living.

i must say, you hit this on the more realistic versions of what-can-happens. in fact some happened with me. sadly my coming out was not greeted kindly, nor yet still is after 11 years.

mental break downs.. lots of meds (anti-psychotics - got tired of them "not working", plus seems i ran out of "working" types.. so i'm off as per my doc' orders... and as per my orders after all this crap finally with him, i'm not seeing my doc anymore, either.).. as my family puts it "dress 'appropriatly'." as my mom rather puts it much better: "you'll ALWAYS be my son."

i'm rather thankful for the fact i'm a minority of the bad cases. and then there are the people in life that try, and do see things.... my life is filled with few such.

but i have my life.. and i have my dreams i dream each day... it keeps me up and alive, at least, so to the happy days we meet?

these kind of things.. they do make me feel warm at heart. at least people are trying.. and ARE changing.

~Verda

nice little story. well there be another story in the wood works?

Eventually, yes.

i cant wait. kind of lost at what he mint when he said it was not all about clothes? makes me think he well be going to the doctors offices some time soon.

What? That's it? o.O I want more... this was warming up my heart and it ended up so soon... buuuh v_v

aww your comic touched me :3
thank you 8D

Wow, that's a really touching story, and cute. My mom's like that a bit. It made me smile.

a dream mother..

If I hhad any emotions left from the very younng age when my relevancy to this was surpressed, I would have cried.

Truly wonderful!*tear of joy*

I wish I could have a mother like that...
Although...
My parents did think I was going to be a girl...
X3

I think that with this you have touched the hearts of meny...
Saying to never give up hope...
Truly wonderful!

Icouldn't care less if someone I knew was transsexual. It's sick how many people tyhinjk it's funny to male fun of them.

great series.

After purposefully seeking this out again and re-reading it, I agree with the widespread sentiment that this series MUST be continued :3

Either in comic or story form, I'm dying to read more about Emily's transformation into being a girl. You have good characters here.

It made my day to see this series. I had a good cry. I'm a trans-woman myself, and I swear I started out in the exact same situation, from start to finish. It really hit home, thank you for making it :)

I've always loved this comic of yours, and how you approached it. I am looking foreward a great deal to more in the future. :)

Oh my god it's sensible, coherent, respectful and doesn't involve sex/incest.

Obviously there's room for improvement but this is definitely the most /mature/ furry transgender comic I've read (not like there's much competition).

Anyway, it's a bit odd how accepting the mom is, but seeing as my mom was anything but accepting, I'm guessing I don't have a fair basis of comparison.

So good work. Do more like this, and less like...Well...What you can so, so easily find elsewhere on FA, really.

Great comic. Hope you do more in the future if you haven't already. You are really good at it.

i like this comic just to bad it is not like that in the real world -sighs-

wow... i really cried...

my mom accepted it when i was gay.. but she didn't accept when i told her i was a girl.......

Wow, I love this comic. It reminds me of my brother when he was a teenager. He wasn't transsexual, but he was gay and my mother was just as worried about him as this fox mother is.

Great job. :3

Very very good. Its easy for people to attack their parents for being unsupportive... but its also easy to forget that sometimes the parents are just afraid of what could happen to their children and honestly don't know how to react.

I used to think I was transgendered myself and while my father was very much the anti-anythingnotstraight my mother was just afraid that I'd be attacked for being how I wanted to be. These days I know I'm not trans but I still remember my mom trying to accept what she felt may well wind up killing me someday.

Odd, I've been watching you for a long while and only just now, a friend of mine brought this comic up in a conversation with them. It kind of took me a bit by surprise in one part of it. I'd ask if there was any chance we could talk about something...

Sure, feel free to note me or IM me. My AIM is on my profile. I tend to only be on late at night though cause of my job, like after midnight (pacific time).

This actually inspired me to tell my mother the truth.

Thank you for making it.

I'm glad I could help, that means a lot to me. I hope it went well, or at least well enough.

Well to be frank she does not likes much the idea (I am sure almost any parent would react in a similar manner), but she took it in a kinda cool way.

I am going to see a psychologist, whom I already meet before but I was still in denial.

Damn..wish it was that easy for me

I would love to tell someone or have them find out by some sort of accident but I know my father would hate me forever. This comic certainly hit a cord deep inside me. One day...

Way to jerk the ole' tears out of me ;___; This was really sweet.

If only it were this quick of a process for ALL parents to begin to come to terms with a transsexual child. I'm a legal adult in my 20s, and was so when I came out to my mother 2 years ago. It was only a few weeks ago that she finally called me by my female name for the first time. She was clearly very nervous and hesitant in doing so, but she DID it, and I can't tell you have very much that meant to me. I'm her daughter, and she is finally beginning to see that. I love her very much, and I know she loves me.

I really look forward to seeing more in this series.

Seeing this today has been wonderful. In an hour, I'm leaving to see my APRN (who fills the role of a psychiatrist), and I'm going to tell him all about my being transgendered. I will also be discussing hormones. Seeing this has given me a little more courage, and has eased some of my nervousness about the situation.

Thank you so much for such a wonderful comic. <3

Sigh.

This made me cry. If only my mother or father were one percent as accepting...

that's one kick ass mum.. anyways great job on this usually not into this sort of topic but i really enjoyed this

I loved your comic hun! it reminds me allot of the movie "the girl next door" but the ending of that movie was sad unliek dis :3

This is sweet. =]

*tears up a little*

Just... beautiful...

I'm... an odd sort of transgendered myself, I suppose... I was born as one sex, but... I've never felt quite like I should just be one... I've been comfortable with the idea of being both for years now... I suppose that makes me __ to herm transgendered... (Sorry, but I don't like sharing even my gender much with people I don't know...)

I know I'll have to tell my parents sometime, but... I don't know when I will... I just have to pray they take it as well as the mother did here...

I... thank you. Thank you for giving me a sense of hope.

I loved the comic. I dont get it though, was Em born a girl or a boy? btw my real name is Emily xD found that funny

nevermind I read the info on the first panel x3

NOOOOOO not the end for now DX it must continue!!!!

Thank you for making this comic; It had me tearing up so much.

When will the next one be posted? I really liked this, it was a good approach to what otherwise would be a very delicate subject

I saw this browsing FA, and I have to admit it really made me happy. I'm an FtM, and my dad's really.. "You're not really trans, it's a phase, etc etc" so if this were in reverse I'd be so frikken happy.

Why did it end?! *shakes Rohein until (she?) has a X.X face*

i think a lot of people are happy you made this comic and wished you would continue i know i do ^^

<3

my girlfriend showed me this; it struck a chord with us, her being MtF and not out to her family.

thank you <3

why did it have to end ;____;

This comic brings my very soul to tears every time I see it...

Deep, beautifu, simple yet so complex. I cried because it reminded me of my mom & when she found out.

lovely comic :)

I read this again after coming to terms some more with myself, and cried.

My parents think they're supportive, but they don't see me as I am. Just as they wish I was, and as I appeared for them. They'll never accept the person I actually am. Not unless I can pretend to be my old self whenever they need me to.

I wish so much that mine had been like this.

Corrected because of an error.

because of this comic, i found out who i really am. about a year ago, i cam out to my parents, my husband, and best friend about being MTF. all of them gave me love and support. also the story touched me so much i decided to go by the name Emily as well.

thank you so much

Beautiful story. It made me laugh, cry and was very touching. I came out to my parents as gay 2 1/2 years ago.. and I'll have to come out again as MtF... hopefully it goes this smoothly. :\

This work alone as earned you a watch from me. I would hug you if I could. :3

and than em gets to the womens section and...I lost what I was going to say :/

really nice comic and touching story, I nearly cried and had to stop reading.... but thanks for this nice peace of emotional art

really really thanks *hugs*

wheres the rest??? you have to make more!! :D

I just want to be loved for who I am and not have to hide. I want a world were I can be openly gay, or MtF or any other expression of gender. Mine gender is not well defined; I lay somewhere in the grey area of the gender identity and preferences spectrum. I know people don't like that but I don't feel like being forced into a corner of being 100% gay, 100% hetro, 100% male, or 100% mtf. I am unique I don't belong, nor do I deserve to be placed, in a category; of what I should feel, how I should act, or what I should like. I feel rejected by everyone, not accepted by gays as I like girls, not accepted by hetros because I like guys, not accepted by the mtf crowd because I am a MtHerm; I am so alone :(

My mate's gender-fluid / neutrois, plus they're asexual. You're not alone in being outside of the gender and orientation binaries.

I'm personally bi and MtF.

your mate is lucky to have someone, being outside the box makes it so hard to find love.

I'm lucky to have them, too.

magnificent

will you cuntinue the comic

wonderful comic, in fact i believe i owe you a watch now. :)

Awesome comic!
I'm not the sappy type but this did make my eyes well up!
Sadly it reminded me I still need to have "The talk" with my mum

why is this stuff not known? and have you made a sequel yet?

After reading through the whole comic, and letting the message sink in...
Oh man this is just...
;.;

This was a really beautiful and touching comic. Great work. :)

This comic hit really close to home. ;-;

I... REALLY want to see more.

If only my mother would just drop it and not live in denial.

I have a step-sister who's trans too, Mom won't even call her by her proper name.

I have to admit, I'm cheering for the character and crying for myself at the same time.

wow, I just finished it and I really don't want it to end D:
Also I can't stop crying while reading it, but I really did love the ending, you can just understand the mother just wants the best for her child, it is a scary thing.

I recently went through this myself, still am actually....

This is well done.

Thank you for this comic, rohein. I'm trans myself and it was really refreshing to read a story where things turn out okay. I mean, we all recognize that it's not all fixed now--Emily has a lot on her plate and her outwardly-visible journey has just begun--but you managed to make her story sweet and her family supportive without being saccharine, and you treated both trans issues and trans ally issues with compassion and respect. Thank you! :)

I tipically am really shy about posting on forums,sites and such.
Same goes for 'likes',favorites and such,but as a young 'girl' this is the best thing i could bump into,so i'll just say it.

Thank you,Rohein,for this comic.
I Cried and smiled at the same time,you made me (and many others,i'm sure) feel happy,i felt part of a whole for the first time,a whole where everyone shares feelings and is there for eachother when needed,something perfect,in my opinion.

I have yet to come out,but my mother and step-father are totally reluctant to anyone who's not hetero and\or of a sex(gender?) defined at birth,so i dont plan to before i have a life on my own..

I may not have helped with this post,but if someone needs a shoulder,feel free to PM me.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

this is a really sweet comic, if only it happened like this every time someone came out as trans.

wow now i think differently about my parents

amazing comic

Great comic!

Why do i always have to find this cool stuff so late after?

while looking at the TF searches and such (ya know ;) ) I never expected to see this. the entire comic was definitly nice, showing a more real wold version of a serious topic. All in all, a nice read, and i got interested by the characters enough to want to see more of their story.

Question kind of bothering me, how old is Paul/Emily?

This is a really great comic; very well done.

Just...so many feelings. I don't know. Just thank you for making this.

I only favourited this page because it was the last one. I would favourite the rest, but my favourites currently have references I need. I just wanted to say this is really touching and I loved reading it, even if it was short. I wish there were more pages, but I understand why there aren't. <3

I really loved this comic! Good work.

i love reading this comic again and again i was it could have gone farther

Is there any chance of a continuation? This was very well done and held my attention right to the end. Bravo!

Wonderful <3

Its so sad.:( being Trans is like 10 times harder than being gay:(


But Go Mom!

Love the comic

Rereading the comic after recommending it to a friend.

And now I feel dumb since I never noticed before that the final page was titled "My Daughter" as opposed to the first "My Son."

Woah, amazing! Really! I wish my mum was so understanding! When I came out to her as being gay, what she said to me (not her exact words but along the same lines and with the same tone) "Thank god, I was worried you were going to say you like wearing girls clothes, that would have been really terrible". You know, when she said that, I didn't show it, but it really hurt me inside and still does to this day...

Needs to be more!
I love this!

nicely done <3

have you given up on the continuation or did I just overlook it? its been 5 years according to the time it was posted

I might be a little late to the comments but I really loved this whole comic to death, I actually cried reading this whole thing and it was very well written and drawn all the way through. This does effect me very much as someone very close to me is going through this and I am trying everything I can to help them with it, This was a great comic and Thank you so much for making it.

Yup. Good story. I clicked on a whim and got what I didn't expect, but something that was really good.

I teared up a bit. I love this.

Why does that have to be the end!? This was a fucking masterpiece, not just in the fact that it's one of very few comics that actually portrays the coming out of a trans girl so well but because you're able just to carry the emotion of a scene just by showing a picture, even with very little or no dialouge at all. That's the height of skill right there!

Please, for the love of all things awesome, make a sequel! You're far too good at this to just stop here! >u<

no matter how many times i go back and read this years apart it still has the same emotional feeling to it.

keep up the amazing work and thank you for making this mini comic

That was rough. But interesting. :)

After readings this, I felt bad for people that go through this kind of pain. I hope that they find happiness in life in pride of who they are or want to be.

I am proud of who I am! Male from birth to death! I couldn't wish for a better life.

For me that is but a dream
When i was wearing my mom's dress my dad cought me and it was not prety

But my mom knowes but thx to my dad cannot support it
But seriusly
Im gonna show this to her
And im gonna tell her this is how i feel

I know this is 7 years old, but I love it. I hope to see more of it someday.

This comic was really awesome and I enjoyed it a lot, especially the later parts when Emily and Terry came to an agreement. Although her original reaction reminds me on my mother when I told her I'm a furry.

whelp, I'm crying
really great comic, thank you for this ;__;

THat's so beautiful ;n;

very very nice comic <3
i can say from experience that this is definitely something id have liked to happen growing up,
youve tugged at my heart strings, its nice to see a happy ending ^~^

Mother of the century right there. :)

This needs a sequel. Please

I saw this comic years ago under a different account, back when I was too shy to say anything. It was beautiful then and it's beautiful now. I find Paul/Emily really relatable. It's hard when your body doesn't match who you are. Every trans person deserves a mother who tries to help and understand their child. Maybe then there'd be lower suicide rate among the trans community. I'd like to think my mom would react like this if she ever found out, but I kinda doubt it. And I know my asshole Stepdad would never understand. Anyway, I really love this comic; thanks for making it.

I really loved this comic. Super adorable near the end. <3

Thank You for making this. I relate to this character and story so much. I think this helped inspire me to get to know myself and open up about it a year ago. I wish my irl version had gone as well, but life is what it is.

Thank You Again.

9 years ago... This remarkable comic was ended. I know its asking much, but if I could, I'd continue this for you bc its THAT good. Sadly Im only decent art literature.

is it bad i want to see alot more of emily and how her life progressed?

Oh my god, that was deeper then I expected. I love it. I know its a decade old, but I'll be thinking about this all week.

As someone who used to be on the opposite side of the tracks whereas I did not understand what transgender people go through, this further helped me understand. And I appreciate the emotion and realness this has to it. It is very deep and profound and makes me want to hug every transgender person I see. Because at the end of the day, we are all people, and that is what should matter the most. People are beautiful, no matter what way they swing and no matter what they choose to be. <3

welp congratulations you struck a nerve and now im sobbing. its great can't wait for more

I really hope there's more of this

i wish my mum was like that:.c

Don't we all.
I think this ripped up my Mom more than my Dad. Dad saw it as a cheerful personality quirk, Mom saw it as the worst possible sin. Crazy. And then I have to be considerate of my siblings.

Yeah same it really sucks

This is a pretty damn wholesome ending!

Also greetings from 12 years later!

Well it looks like Emily has at least one small victory.

Pretty good ending, or rather beginning I guess ^^". While I was lucky to have very open and accommodating friends and family there's always something that could have gone better but I think most trans people would be okay with it turning out like that.
I like that you made this comic show much more of a realistic side of being trans. Not that I don't like the tons of "Just drink this potion and your body immediately turns to the other sex"-comics but those can be pretty frustrating. You managed to hit the nail on the head a lot here, for example with the "childhood I can never have" part (coming out at almost 30 I often wish I could have had all those things girls go through growing up...).
Anyway enough rambling, just want to say I like the comic basically ^^

This comic impacted me so hard when i was younger. Its now to the point that my chosen name is going to be Emily. So beautiful

In 2025 its still good...