Thanks for this, Ahyoka! Such beautiful wisdom from the Cherokee tradition. Thank you for preserving and sharing some of those lessons. My 8-year-old son is trans and it has been an interesting and sometimes heartbreaking journey, and he has had similar experiences to the boy pulling you into the “right” line.

Part of our story is here:

https://medium.com/@angelajohnson_45539/a-boy-named-lu-our-first-graders-gender-journey-so-far-1dc879c9f378