Thankfully she overcame her internalized racism before she passed away, but she never got around to telling me much more about her family.

My colombian family is cool but I've never been able to get close to them due to the language barrier. My spanish is so bad. I hated my stepdad when I was a kid. He was always trying to get me to "man up." Ironically, once I came out he was super supportive. But we're still not close.

He was like "oh! That makes sense why you err um. Well you know a lot of transsexuals would come to the family pharmacy back in colombia, you know for the estrogen, and they were friends with me when I was a young man. I gave them their shots. You're going to be a beautiful woman. I'm proud of you."