With the support of her new friends, Jamie began to feel more confident in her identity. She started to express herself in a way that felt authentic, and she began to see a therapist who specialized in LGBTQ issues.
Meanwhile, in gay male culture, the rise of "no femmes, no fats, no Asians" on dating profiles often bled into a dismissal of trans men. There has been a slow but painful education process within the gay male community to recognize that trans men are men, and that attraction to a trans man does not make a gay man "bisexual" or "confused."