Ask Matt: What if My Little Sister is Trans?
September 13, 2012 by Matt Kailey
http://tranifesto.com/2012/09/13/ask-matt-what-if-my-little-sister-is-trans/A reader writes: "I'm twenty years old, FTM, and have been out to my family for two years and on testosterone for one year. My little sister is eleven. When I first came out, she was really fine with it and, from what I could tell, only struggled with it for a short while because she felt like she was losing her big sister. But now she is one of my best allies and embraces me wholeheartedly as her big brother.
"Recently, she's been getting her hair cut short – shorter than mine, even. She doesn't wear anything that would really be described as 'feminine,' shopping in both the boys' section and the girls' section at stores. She also seems really interested in the LGBT community. I haven't pushed her to do any of this. The thing is, my sister told me that she might be gender-neutral, and I may have heard her mention once that she thinks she could be bi.
"I just don't know if eleven years old is too young to decide any of that. I told her that I support her no matter how she identifies, but I also encouraged her to keep an open mind because she doesn't have to know exactly what she is right now.
