Queerly Trans Writing Prompt

Write them a letter…

Photo and Handwriting by Logan Silkwood

We all have our stories from our experiences coming out, if we have come out of the closet already.

If you haven’t come out of the closet, you have all of the stories that are happening in your imagination right now, all of the things you hope or fear that each person in your life will say and do and think.

For this writing prompt, I offer 3 options:

1. Write a thank you note to the person(s) who supported you when you came out. This note doesn’t have to follow a letter format. It can be an essay or a poem, too. It just must be addressed to this person. Use the pronoun “you” or “you all” or an informal equivalent. This is for the eyes of your community, so feel free to share the vulnerable things that you may not even have been able to explain to them about the impact that their support had on you. Let us vicariously revel in your appreciation of the one(s) who accepted you exactly as you are.
2. Write a note to the person(s) who did not support you when you came out. As in option 1, this does not have to be in any kind of formal format; it just has to be directed at this person. Imagine your community listening as you write. Try to provide all of the words that each of us longs to say to this person in our life (as they exist for so many of us). Say all of the things you wanted to say but maybe couldn’t. Know that, even if they won’t hear you, your words will be heard…by us. We have your back.
3. Write a note to a person who you have not come out to yet or cannot come out to for whatever reason. This person can be living or someone who has already passed away. It can be someone you intend to tell or someone who will never know. Imagine their reaction and include a response to that reaction, if you’d like. You can frame this as a note, a poem, an essay, or a dialogue. You can also go back in time and imagine telling this person at an earlier age.

This is my response to my own prompt:

The Foundation Mask (Diary of a Trans Man)

Here is a wonderful response from 💜 Victoria Quinn 💜 :

Coming Out Trans to My Hair Stylist

Here are the lovely letters offered up by locke besse in this writing:

I AM NOW THE FIRST WOMAN TO GRADUATE FROM MY ALL BOYS PREPSCHOOL

This coming out letter from Amber Poe made this trans man cry:

If There Was Something You Could Do To Save My Life, Would You?

This is Jenny Starr✨’s powerful letter to her wife:

Goodbye To My Wife

Here is locke besse’s well researched letter to her daughter:

Coming Out — To My Fundamentalist Christian Daughter

Here is Kyler Middleton’s awesome collection of coming out stories:

Coming Out As Trans — Life, Work, and Everywhere In-between

Here is locke besse’s letter to a lesbian sister:

A Letter From A Trans Woman To Her Lesbian Sister

Did you enjoy this free writing prompt? Here is another free one to get those creative writing juices flowing!

• A Free 30 Minute Writing Prompt to Produce 3 Great Posts Quickly | by Logan Silkwood | Jan, 2022 | Medium

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