Am I the bad guy here?
This is a throwaway account!!!
Two days ago, a male friend of mine called me transgender. I am AFAB (assigned female at birth) and still identify as female. When I came back to class, he said I looked like a transgender person. At first, I didn’t care, but he kept repeating it over and over (I was sick and very tired), and by the third time, I got mad at him. I said :"maybe ninte daddy arikum" and he got sotriggereda by that now he sends me reels like "he has only one dad but others that says something about his dad has multiple fathers". I don't know why he thinks he can make fun of me in front of my friends and I can't do the same thing. I elt so humiliated—it brought back past trauma. When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my friends used to bully me by calling me transgender because I had short hair. It was very painful for me; they would even hurt me every time I went to the washroom. His comments reminded me of those days, and it really hurts.
Now I don’t know what to do. I tried to reconcile with him, but he acts like he’s some big deal.