Neither Galen nor I attended a preschool or a kindergarten. The first day of first grade was our first time mixing with other kids our age.
-- Maia Kobabe (chapter 1 paragraph 1)

Importance: This caption is above a picture of three boys in a clubhouse, telling Galen and Kobabe that he could join them but e could not, "Because she is a girl and girls have COOTIES!" (17). This seems to have been one of the first times Kobabe was made to feel excluded because of eir assigned-at-birth gender, which did not match eir gender identity. E has drawn emself looking confused and shrugging, as e did not know why e was being treated this way.

I walked back to put my shirt on again. But I didn't feel that I had done anything wrong. It was everyone else being silly, NOT ME.
-- Maia Kobabe (chapter 1 paragraph 1)

Importance: In another instance of being treated differently because of eir gender, Kobabe recalls being asked...