Unfortunately he found out due to my Wife and I discussing my past in a fairly explicit manner one day. I guess it was fairly careless of us, but K has always been one to never listen in on conversations between adults and neither of us gave it a second thought until he said “Wait… Dad used to be a girl?!”

My Wife who was the one who initially mentioned the comment in passing (in words other than above) was beside herself that she had outed me. There wasn’t much I could do except begin to educate him.

There’s a resource called “The Little Boy Book”  which is a children’s book breaking down female-to-male transition in simple and effective language. He didn’t ask many questions at all, and it honestly didn’t phase him as much as I thought it would.

I simply told him that if he had any questions, don’t be scared to ask them. I then re-iterated that this kind of information is something that we keep within the family and that he is not to elaborate on my history to anyone else, as it’s irrelevant.

My Wife is still upset that she outed me in such a manner, but he rarely ever brings it up and I suppose it would have had to happen eventually at some point. He’s seen me naked when exiting the shower and so forth (anyone with children can attest to the innate lack of privacy) but never mentioned that my body was different to mine. I don’t actually think he’s taken notice at all.

My various surgeries have all been explained as removing parts that I shouldn’t have been born with, and then later when I had my hysto it was “removing a mass that isn’t dangerous”. He never asked any other questions.