“He’s my friend”

I graduated with a girl who always used to call me her ‘guy best friend’ even before she knew I was transgendered. I was okay with this, obviously. Her little brother, who is 4-5, maybe 6, always used to call me ‘he’ and refused to call me ‘her’ or my given name. This kid loves me, we’ve played ukulele together and theres a photo of us on the band room wall.

My friend didn’t react so well with me when I came out as Nate. That was okay, I figured she’d come around. I haven’t really heard from her until today when I got this text:

“So! (Little brother) went to the high school and saw the picture of you two on the wall and said “he’s my friend” and Ms. (band teacher) said (little brother) really was the first to know you were a boy <3″

Really cute, and gives me hope. Give them time. They’ll come around.