#they were also so surprised to hear that i hadn't had any surgery or hormones or anything

[nookr]

had such a good experience with a couple sixth-graders tbh (they're all around 11-12 years old boys)

heads up this got kinda long and i'm on mobile so...

i'm wearing this trans wrist band by 100% mensch (a german lgbt organisation) and today one of the kids asked me what that meant

i, at first was unsure if i should explain so i just said it's an organisation but they kept asking further so i decided, hey if they're gonna learn about trans-issues they better learn that through me than through false information by a transphobe or anything

so i explained it all (they thought trans people are only people who transitioned from male to female) and i followed it up by telling them that i'm trans too

and they were super interested and nice about it!! kept asking question, made sure to ask if i was comfortable with answering them and were in general so much more mature about the topic than some adults i talked to about it

they felt so sad for me when i told them that i'd been depressed for a couple years bc i couldn't live as a boy and one was so shocked to hear that i don't go swimming at all bc of dysphoria or that i can't stand the tone of my own voice

one of them also said that my face already looked very masculine and he'd never guessed that i wasn't cis (not his words but sorta like that, you know) and they were just really nice and interested about it

at the end they even thanked me for talking to them about this topic and i was so glad i did

just goes to show you that hatred is something you get taught and that no one is intolerant by default