TG short stories (M2F)

Rebalanced Part 1

"Mom, Dad... Miles... I'm... I'm..."

Sandy cringed.

"I'm transgender."

Miles's eyes shot wide and his jaw dropped. His sister? Trans!?

Sandy slowly explained, how, ever since she was little, she had felt like she was really a boy.

He felt really stupid for not seeing it. She'd been wearing her hair shorter and shorter, and it was now obvious that she'd been wearing a binder, even though her boobs were already small.

Miles also felt like he couldnt remember the last time he'd seen Sandy wearing a skirt or a dress or something.

He sat timidly curled up on the couch, as he listened to his... brother... talk.

Mom and Dad wore anxious looks, which didn't seem to set Sandy at ease. Miles felt bad, seeing Sandy's downcast look, but he knew that he probably wasn't able to hide a smilar face.

It was just... Sandy was his sister. She'd always been his twin, right there beside him. Replacing that image and those memories with this new... Sander... just felt downright strange.

Dad breathed deeply, and heaved out a long sigh. "This...," he said, "is going to be difficult."

Their parents didn't get angry. They in fact put their arms around Sandy/Sander. They said that they couldn't deny it, they were frustrated about this, but they did still love them, and that wouldn't change. They were going to need to work this out.

And that duality stayed in Miles, and probably Mom and Dad too. As Sander made efforts to look more boyish, and talk and act more like a boy, it made them all uncomfortable. They loved him, but they also just... didn't understand.

Miles wanted to understand, but despite many conversations with Sander over the next months, he just couldn't.

Sander wanted to be more bold and confident in himself, and so wasn't afraid of their family talking to others about it. Miles had tried to talk to some of his friends about it, but then one of his friends had accused him of being transphobic, and that he should accept Sander's transition, and make it as comfortable for him as possible.

And that was the problem. Miles wanted to be nice - but there things he was uncomfortable with, mixed in with things he thought were true. Was he reallly transphobic just because he felt uncomfortable around his brother?

Dad seemed more broken up than Miles was, though Mom was as well. Before Sandy had become Sander, she'd always been a Daddy's girl. Miles hadn't just defaulted to being a Momma's boy though, but just... his parents' son.

One would think he'd like to have a brother - it was like having a best friend that was around all the time. But he liked having his sister beside him. He'd always sort of imagined like they were Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls.

Miles had liked girly Sandy. She had seemed to like it so much. But maybe she'd been faking it the whole time.

That felt like the biggest problem Miles dealt with as the months passed. He felt he didn't know his sibling anymore. Hiding her secret desires to be a boy had ruined the illusion that they shared everything together.

Sander had told him all he'd wanted to know about it. In some small measure, the act seemed to tell Sander that Miles knew it would make Sander feel good to talk about it.

There was never animosity between them. Just awkwardness. And even though Sander told him all, it didn't feel the same as what Miles had known before, that he and his sibling had experienced everything together.