“Nick…?” Tucker answered, furrowing a brow. “You went somewhere else for a moment.”
“I know. I’m just thinking.”
“About her.”
“Yes.” Nick nodded. He gathered his thoughts, forgetting the minutia of the concert and worry over sounding offensive, and tried to speak his feelings. “So when she first told me she was trans, I thought I liked her because she used to be a guy—probably the exact kind of guy I would have been all over if I’d met her before now. But I’ve been learning from her and these online videos that I shouldn’t say that. Katie or any other trans woman isn’t a guy. Even when everyone thought they were guys, they were still women deep down. It’s sometimes complicated, but I get that. Even before I knew she was trans, I thought she was a woman. I can’t really picture her as any
