Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Hi everyone. 

Before I start, let me just say that I am not trying to be homophobic/transphobic. I am incredibly new to this and it's very difficult for me to keep the hang of it. If i do make a mistake, please correct me. I want to learn. i don't know if my age has to do with anything but I am a sophomore in high school, I am 16.

So my current girlfriend came out to me as transgender the other day. She is now a boy and now my boyfriend. I am sorry if I use the wrong pronoun by mistake, I will try and read over and try and find if I make a mistake. Anyways we've been together for a little under a year now and I love him a lot. this is a lot for me to handle but I really support his transition and i am proud of him for being so brave to tell me. I love him literally with all my heart. if I could marry him right now I would, it doesn't matter that he is now a boy. But last night I actually had a weird thought: does this make me gay? because he is a boy and i am dating him.

So I brought this up with him today and he said yes I am gay. I was very confused because I have never liked guys before, and I still don't. I feel like this is a special case? Maybe it's not. I don't want to make him feel like he is any less of a boy just because he was born a girl, but I also don't really feel... gay. So he brought up the term bisexual, and I said no that isn't it either. I told him that I think I am straight, but I love him and he's an exception. He got very mad at me and wouldn't talk to me even after school. I've tried texting him but he won't respond, which is weird because almost every night we have really long text conversations.

Should I try and be gay for him? I don't think I could ever date a boy (other than him) and I am not sexually into guys like that. I am fine with gay people I just don't think I am one, or even bisexual. I really only have ever liked girls except for this one situation.

I don't want to leave him because I love him, but I don't want to identify as gay. He wants me to identify as gay, but I am straight, I think. I feel like he is an exception. 

Am I being an asshole for not identifying as gay? Is it transphobic? I am sorry if it is.

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Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.