Increasing numbers of youth are beginning to come out and transition while in college. This qualitative study examines the perspectives of male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) transgender students as they reflect upon the reactions of family and friends. While friends tended to be supportive, parents often had a negative reaction to their children coming out as transgender and sought to dissuade the students from transitioning. The study participants who were pre-transition and living part time as their self-identified gender often felt that the reactions of others reinforced their sense of not being normal. The students who had moved into living full time as their self-identified gender began to feel some sense of normalcy in their lives.