An aquaintance of mine just shared a story that provides me with another example that people are often more accepting than we give them credit for.

She’s an intersexed transsexual who’s into bicycle racing. Some troll on a local cycling forum she belongs to somehow got info about her gender status and plastered it all over the forum. The post was deleted by the other mod and troll banned, but the rumors were swirling, so she had the courage to set the record straight.

The result was wonderfully accepting. She received more than 200 private messages of support as well as more from the vast majority of the 150 posts (and counting) in the thread. Plus when the troll reappeared under a new name to give her more grief, the other members slapped him down. Oh, and my aquaintance  discovered one of the prominent members of the forum was a post-op MTF.