My cousins are 3 and 6, and as I transitioned in secret for a year and a half, with only some people knowing, I worried that if I waited too long, they'd struggle to see me as a woman, like everyone else.
Unfortunately, that was the case. I've been out to everyone since the end of October, and while they've got my name down, they struggle with pronouns and neither of them see me as a woman. The younger cousin struggles to remember that I'm woman. The older cousin can repeat it as a fact, but doesn't see me as a real woman.
When we driving by her school, she pointed it out to me, and I reminded her that I had been to her school. She said that was for a fathers' event, because I was a boy then, and now I'm a girl, but when she goes to the women's room, she says I can't come in because I'm a boy.
Yesterday I was trying on some of my aunt's old clothes, since we have similar builds, and she said I looked ridiculous.
I get that they're kids, and they'll learn, but it still hurts.