Surprise, your aunt's really an uncle!

So I'm 20 years old, and most of my father's family's been living overseas in Canada my whole life (only met them twice, once was for a year though). I keep hearing about some grim secret about my auntie Jen, but no one cares to tell me what it is. Finally I ask my older sister and hear that she used to be a guy, and had a freaking sex change in the 80s, obviously her/his name was Jan.

Now to be honest, I have no idea how to react, first of all, I know nothing about my family. I've always looked at them as a bunch of boring squares, and now I feel like I'm ready for the Jerry Springer show. I don't even know who to talk to anymore, or how or what to talk about.

So just out of curiosity... How would you react? Ever experienced anything similar?

(By the way, if you're wondering, I'm not making this up).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by a lurker

I'd be surprised, but it's not like they're a different person then they were before. Becides, who the hell are you that you even think you have the right to object to your aunt's surgery? Fucking kids don't have any manners these days. It really isn't any of your damn business, you should be glad they told you the big secret rather than fuss about how you can't look at them in the same way.

You don't really seem to realise how such changes in ones own family affects a person. Now there's no point in me objecting to it, and so I don't. But the fact that someone in my own family would do that sort of thing, and that my closest family would keep that away from me for so many years is what I had a hard time accepting at first.

There's nowhere I can't reach.