A black transgender SirDiamond Jones took to his Facebook to share a story about something that happened to him back when he was twelve or thirteen years old, playing basketball at a park in Akron, Ohio.
He walked down memory lane with a story from his teens.
SirDiamond Jones shared that back when he was 12 or 13, still going by she/her, he looked every bit the little tomboy.
He was always the kid in boys’ clothes, sagging jeans, hooping with the fellas, holding doors for girls, the whole thing.
One day, when he was playing basketball at a park with a group of kids, one of his friends was being picked up by her mother.
His friends’ mother stared at SirDiamond for a second and then asked straight out:
“Are you a dyke?”
Instantly, his face just twisted up like “Huh?” He had no idea what to say.
Before he could even answer, the lady kept going: “Because my daughter don’t do gay stuff. I thought you was a little boy!”
Then she turned around and walked off as if nothing had happened.
SirDiamond wrote that this wasn’t even the first time church folks had said stuff like that to him. Grown-ups saw the baggy clothes and the way he carried himself and decided he must be something he hadn’t even figured out yet.
In fact, his own mother noticed it too. She pulled him aside a few times and asked, “You like girls?” and “You gone be gay, ain’t you?”
He wrote:
My mom had a beautiful chocolate baby girl and she treated me as such.
SirDiamond Jones
I was fortunate enough to have a mom that was questioning me at first 😂
However, she accepted him wholeheartedly and never made him feel wrong or pushed away.
Likewise, SirDiamond Jones never had to sit the family down for some big “coming out” moment about liking girls; everybody already knew from the jump.
That said, years later, at the age of 17, he did come out as a Trans person, which was a different talk and a different day.
Years later, at seventeen, he did tell everybody he was trans. That was a different talk, a different day.
Brad Johnson commented on the post, writing:
I’m surprised a grown-ass woman would talk to a CHILD that way. That’s where kids learn how to be bullies. In any case, you look fabulous and I’m glad you yourself have a supportive parent in your corner.
SirDiamond Jones
Ashlet Gallaghar praised his mother and supportive family, which reads:
I’m glad your mom was supportive & you were able to be your authentic self. I’m sorry that you had negative experiences from hypocristians. Growing up in a black church I witnessed the pastor speaking negatively about Catholics, other religions & homosexuals. I still smile when I think of all of my trans & gay friend’s & family that survived that toxic environment!
SirDiamond Jones
