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MyImmortal posted...

I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to post this but I wanted to post about it somewhere

My son had a very good friend in his class last year. His friend's mom reached out to me yesterday to tell me that his friend is now using a different name and different pronouns. I explained this to my son and it took him all of 2 minutes to understand and say that he's really excited to see her at school next week. And that was it. It was so easy. And it's so heartwarming to me that young people just... don't care!

I met up with a family friend recently for the first time since coming out as trans. Her kid is 18 but mentally several years younger and her mom was worried that she wouldn't understand what being trans means. So she started delicately explaining how I had changed my name and stuff and the kid's first question was apparently, "oh, are they non-binary now?"

Kids get it pretty intuitively and I love that. It's adults who struggle, especially willfully ignorant ones.