Late last night, this conversation happened between me and a cousin:
Me: I....am trans*.
Them: really? i mean that in a like a positive tone
Me: No, I randomly decided to blow up my entire life with a joke....LOL
Them: lol!
Me: Yes, I'm trans.
Them: that's awesome actually
Me: Okay, probably the most positive and least "wait, wut?" response yet, LOL I knew you were the right person to tell
Them: i have a lot of trans friends, this is nothing new to me haha
Then they came out as being andro, but unable to come out because of their mother(my aunt), which makes my next step that much more frightening. They can't tell their own mother, I'm just a "niece(I prefer nephew, but I kind of know how this is going to play out)".
Then, this morning, they took a picture of themselves with the caption: "yeaaaaah.. not feeling this makeup ->-bleeped-<- today".
They are my baby cousin, the one everyone said was just like me(literally, we're both pansexual(-ish, they identify as "polysexual" because there is one or two scales on the gender spectrum they aren't attracted to), both pagan, both want to be Social Workers, now both laying outside the gender binary, both suffer from dysphoria and depression...etc). I think, in the end, we will be the only one's standing among a sea of bigots and morons(our family). I am so proud of them and the life they are making for themselves. I'm 10 years their senior, and they are like my little minime, LOL
