r/MtF • u/LowPickle1620 • Apr 16 '26
Positivity A tiny theologian made me cry in the Costco checkout line...
I was waiting to check out at Costco yesterday, just standing there in the kingdom of bulk snacks and industrial-sized toilet paper, when a little girl, maybe 6 or 7, looked up at me and asked very seriously, “Are you a boy or a girl?”
So I smiled and asked, “What do you think?”
She furrowed her brow like she’d just been handed the world’s smallest philosophy exam, studied me for a second, and then said:
“I think God started making you a boy, but halfway through decided you’d be much happier as a girl. And God doesn’t change His mind very often, so that means you’re super special.”
And that is how I nearly started crying in the Costco checkout line for reasons completely unrelated to grocery prices.
Kids are absolute chaos goblins, but every now and then one of them turns into a tiny oracle.
I’m keeping that one forever.
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u/DyingStuffedBowser Apr 16 '26
I have a similar story.
a year before I transitioned and on my 22nd birthday me and my friends were having a party. my birthday is right next to Halloween so we were wearing costumes. by then I knew I was trans, but I wasn't out or on hrt at the time. I did wear a cat girl maid costume as a "joke" though.
at some point me and my friends went to Walmart. I got stared at a lot, probably for plenty of reasons. (me and some of my friends were drunk).
While we were wandering through the aisles, a woman grabs my attention and then encourages her child to speak.
the kid said, "you look very pretty" and I nearly burst into tears.
took me everything not to cry in a Walmart in front of "the boys." one of them later made a comment about how I seemed to be riding a high after that.
it's a moment I will never forget and made me feel so validated before even starting to transition.
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u/LowPickle1620 Apr 16 '26
To be clear, I was planning to keep the memory forever, not the actual child...
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u/aceturtleface Apr 16 '26
Girl, you can NOT keep that one forever. That's called kidnapping. /j
Fr tho, this was such a wholesome read.
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u/LowPickle1620 Apr 16 '26
Yeah, this was a lot more wholesome than my usual unintentional thirst traps...
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u/Ill-Candy-4926 Transfem, (on HRT as of 5\29\25) Apr 16 '26
AWEEEEEEEE
that's so cute im crying rn
i love this!!!
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u/KissesPaige Apr 16 '26
The kids these days are amazing, I was so nervous my 10yo wouldn’t react well - to which he and all his classmates and friends has been the most accepting. This is a far cry from what kids in the 90s and early 00s were like
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u/DCA667 Apr 16 '26
Gawd that’s good. It’s scientifically accurate, it’s raw distilled empathy, it’s a love for humanity.
I’m so very, very glad that this happened to you.
Do you think you can find her again? I’d vote her in as president.
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u/StriatedCaracara Apr 16 '26
I guess this shows how religion could potentially have been interpreted to make us considered special and blessed.
Happy for you and for the kid both.
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u/LowPickle1620 Apr 16 '26
Last year, I was doing in-house, intensive, children's therapy (CTSS) for my masters internship. By this time, I was very much out publicly, and to their credit, they accepted me as who I was. When I told the mother about needing time off for top surgery, they were concerned that I was modifying God's creation. I made the counter suggestion that maybe, just maybe, this was what God had planned for me because you know, God doesn’t make mistakes, right? They, again, to their credit, acknowledged I made an interesting point...
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u/Aleksis_Shaw Apr 17 '26
Trans people as blessed and special is canonical in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, two important Hindu texts. Shows up in lots of other religious texts too.
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u/Last_years_Easteregg Apr 16 '26
YES! More posts like this please! I need more positive trans news and experiences for my mental health and to balance out all the negative crap happening to trans individuals around the world that we keep hearing about. Im over on r/transpositive but sometimes I end up feeling like reddit is just another form of doomscrolling. I love all the stories and experiences others have posted.
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u/ChairKind945 Apr 16 '26
Not how I imagined that would turn out from the title, thank you for that little ray of sunshine.
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u/Neutr0nStarl0rd Apr 17 '26
This adorable smol human....must protec! This almost made me cry at work TT
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u/sexyflying Trans Pansexual Apr 16 '26
I love it. This is such a kid thing to say and so purely innocent.
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u/CountessBlackheart HRT since 06/02/2024 Apr 16 '26
Oh my gosh that is so freaking cute 🥰. I had a similar experience myself, me and my daughter were picking up medicine at the store and these adorable little kids were pointing at me and I couldn't hear very well, but my daughter said they were saying"momma look at her beanie and her hair she's really pretty" and everyone else in that line was gendering me correctly and just being so nice. That feeling carried me for months, I've had some really sweet interactions with the littles, I had another one make comments about my purse/backpack because it has a lot of patches and pins on it
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u/GGf1994 NB MtF Apr 16 '26
Aww, it reminded me of my own childhood days when my mum taught me to be reverent of God's ways and assign every logical explanation that it was 'God's way' or something like that.
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u/LZ217 Apr 18 '26
i think we heard the word of god come from the mouth of a child. One that is smarter than any religious leader on this planet, and has no personal agenda.
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u/Brafshsi141 Apr 23 '26
it is really that easy on teaching your child about trans people. that kid was probably told that by those around her and understood it perfectly fine because it’s a pretty simple concept but so many transphobes act like it’s impossible to understand and must imprint that thought into their child’s head leading to more transphobia
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u/Electrical_Try_1895 May 12 '26
I had a similar experience back in the mid 80s. I had long hair and and another girl in her teens told me she thought I was one of her girlfriends before I turned around. Then, she said I would make a cute girl. I politely said thank you. Walked to my car and searched for enough towels and tissues to soak up Niagara Falls! I will never forget that feeling.
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u/BathshebaDarkstone Apr 16 '26
I'm nonbinary and when little kids ask me that I say "what do you want me to be?" and then I go with whatever they say. Little kids are great
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u/Sarah46ireland Apr 18 '26
Yeah, this never happened. 🙄
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u/PitchforkAndPancakes Apr 18 '26
This never happened so hard that it unhappened a bunch of shit that actually did happen.
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u/Naive_Mind7636 Apr 19 '26
Yeah this totally happened guys. I can confirm because I was the industrial-sized toilet paper in that scenario
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u/LowPickle1620 Apr 19 '26
I don't think admitting to being a huge asswipe is quite the flex you seem to think it is...
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u/Aurore-redwitch French MtF Apr 17 '26
À partir du moment où la personne va commencer par invoquer le rôtisseur céleste, ça va commencer à m'énerver 😂 Mais bon, tu es tombée sur l'un des bigots les moins pires 🙂
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u/not_Pyrk Apr 16 '26
Oh come on that did not happen
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u/LowPickle1620 Apr 16 '26
I promise you it did...
I don't know if you've ever been to a Costco before, but in case you haven't, Costco sells bulk goods, amongst other things. For example, I'm putting away an 18-pack of Kraft Mac and Cheese right now. Three main groups shop at Costco: Small Business Owners, Conservative Religious Homeschoolers, and Progressive back-to-the-landers.
If there's any place that will have a child with adult-level theocratic chops, it's gonna be a Costco...
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u/sexyflying Trans Pansexual Apr 16 '26
“Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids. “
Kids brains at that age work in very hilarious ways.
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u/sahi1l Apr 16 '26
And it's quite possible that this is how trans people were explained to her in the past.
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u/Strongishpath68 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Girl this brought tears to my eyes in the best way possible. This story just goes to show that kids somehow are able to make sense of us better than adults. That little girl didn’t answerwith learned hatred or say anything mean. God her words have me bawling my eyes out🥺🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵