Felix Ever After

by Kacen Callender

“Well,” she said, “you deciding to be a guy instead of a girl feels inherently misogynistic.” She told me, “You can’t be a feminist and decide you don’t want to be a woman anymore.”

“Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to just—I don’t know, only be around people like me,” Wally says. “Not deal with the transphobia, the racism, the anti-queerness. Just surround myself with a hundred other Wallys and be done with it. Create my own world, my own bubble, so I don’t have to be rejected by anyone else.”

“I’m just saying,” I whisper. “I think it’s possible to be in love with more than one person—and that even if you love someone, maybe they’re not really meant for you.”