Heartening

I was waiting for the bus yesterday when two passerbys caught my attention only because one of them was a young transgender woman wearing lovely dangly earrings and speaking, without undue self-consciousness, in a rather deep voice. She was talking to her female friend during an animated discussion as they were headed for the metro entrance.

What struck me was that these GenZs perhaps don't realize just how uncommon this would have been when I was their age; something which I found rather heartening.