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ariadventures · 1 year

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Every time I’m in Houston, I stop by an Asian bakery to bring back fun and fancy breads before I head to the airport. Our cashier was trans. On the drive home, my mother expressed surprise, and then a moment of silence before her next carefully worded sentence. “In this world, people take different paths to reach their own happiness.” Sometimes I think she’s close to understanding it and it gives me false hope

#this is the same woman who gives her daughter straight tests so 🤪#I do think she is secretly more progressive than she consciously understands #but she’s often talked over by my father who is much more conservative #and it’s just never worth trying to discuss with him #during the height of the trans bathroom bill she argued with my father on politics (very rare)#she had a coworker she didn’t know was trans until she told her #and in her words it made no difference anyway just washing their hands beside one another #at the time I thought it was the compassionate conservative thing #but over the years I realize she is more open minded than previously thought #if only she was able to direct this inwards towards her own family #that sentence was in Chinese so that’s my approximate translation but it carried a lot more depth I can’t describe

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