Jeena Bloom wasn't surprised when her brother Felix came out as a trans man. But when Jeena came out as a trans woman, their relationship took on a new dimension
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By the time they left the café, James had agreed that from here on out, he would call Justine “Felix.” That night was the last time he thought of his sibling as “her,” the last time he used her birth name, the last time Justine existed outside his memory. His sister wasn’t really disappearing, James realized. She was already gone. And though Felix didn’t know it yet, James was too.
But just because gender identity has a biological basis doesn’t mean that we know how exactly it works. “There are things that seem to correlate a little bit this way or that, but there isn’t a very clear picture,” Safer says. Some studies have shown that the white matter in the brains of trans males looks a lot like the white matter of biological men; but brain matter is malleable, so brain variance could be an effect, not a cause.
@media and { .ad.vp-0-600 { display: block; } } @media and { .ad.vp-600-1024 { display: block; } } Jeena, meanwhile, hid her adoration of femininity behind friendships with church girls, who prayed for her to accept Jesus as her savior over midnight breakfast at Denny’s. By the time she began visiting strip clubs just to talk to the dancers about her secret , she was in college — old enough to hide her secret from her family.
Felix was more skeptical. “I don’t really feel any particular affection for or obligation to someone just because we share a lot of genes,” he says. “Until Jeena moved here, I hadn’t really seen her since I was 22, and we’re very different people.” The two spent several months getting reacquainted as James and Justine, exploring the city, trying new food, and rediscovering a familial rhythm, eventually moving in together.
As they came to discover, their parents were also the reason both siblings had postponed their public transitions: Neither felt like they could come out as trans while their parents were still alive .
.cover-section-break { border-top: 4px double #111; width: 10%; text-align: left; margin: 21px 0 35px; position: relative; display: inline-block; } On the third floor of a West Village walk-up, Jeena is getting ready to meet Felix for the first time in femme. Though she came out to him more than five months ago, she hadn’t wanted him to see her as her until she had mastered her image. “I just wanted to have everything really solid,” she says.
Prata cocks her head to the side in approval. “It’s kind of a shame we’re going to meet your brother now,” she grins. “You look a little too hot.” Jeena meets her gaze and smiles back. .
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