During the recent Parent-Teacher Meeting, a father was concerned about his son being small and scrawny. I knew that his son doesn’t eat proper meals during recess and lunch time, but I didn’t know this was a sore point with his dad.
The dad then showed me a picture of his two children. His daughter - who is younger than his son by two years - is a full head taller than him. People assume that the daughter is his elder child.
Now, his concern resonated deeply with me. My elder son eats to live because he’s always preoccupied with his toys. My daughter lives to eat, gobbling greedily hungrily and demanding for second, third, fourth helpings. I have to feed my son while my daughter chows down her food independently like a champ.
So, I shared what the father had mentioned with my wife.
“So what if our girl turns out to be taller than him?” she challenged. “Isn’t it fine if both of them are Healthy?”
”If our son wants to be a girl in future, what will you say?” she continued.
”I will say Go ahead,” I answered immediately and meant it.
“So why should size be a difference then?”
“Because if his heart is female, I don’t think we should change that,” I tried to clarify my thinking. “But food intake is something that we can control manage.”
We discussed a bit further, but the main thing I want you, my awesome reader, to take away is it’s moments like this that make you realise that you have married the right person. Sexuality can be a loaded topic, but both of us just declared over a casual dinner that it’s okay for our children to be transgender. That’s cool, huh?