The summer before my junior year of high school, I came out as transgender. I’d been raised a girl, but knew that I was really a boy, and it was time to transition. What I didn’t know is that the person I’d always called “Dad” was about to transition too. The same year I came out as Alexander, “Dad” came out as Mom....
Pic post transition
Alexander Thixton is a server, writer, and semiprofessional superqueer. He lives with his fiancé, elderly cat, and a lot of weird existential dread. You can look at two-thirds of these things on his Instagram. You can catch the third thing on his Tumblr.
This essay originally appeared on Narrative.ly.
