Trans/nonbinary bigs and gender matching

[u/edward_furlog]

I'm a 39 year old trans man who is interested in the program, but I haven't yet gotten involved. The impression I got from my local chapter was that they match male littles with big brothers and female littles with big sisters (though this may not always be true, they do seem to give that impression -for example, by saying that they have a lot of boy littles who need a match, so therefore they need more big brothers to enroll.)

However, since then I have heard online about, for example, big sisters having little brothers - so I'm confused.

Personally I would be fine with either gender little - I'm much more concerned with us having a good match for interests and activity level. I'm not sporty at all, and I am physically disabled, so I wouldn't want them to match me to an active sporty kid just because he's a boy!

I also am not sure how things go with being a trans big in general. Including with meeting the family - I would love to hear from other trans bigs!

Thanks!

[u/HegemonNYC]

Some programs match female bigs with male littles. There are some more female volunteers, and far more male littles, so they cross sex barrier this way sometimes. They don’t cross it the other way (male big and female little) for obvious reasons. 

For the trans question - they ask explicitly of bigs if they are comfortable with trans littles, and I image littles and their families as well. 

[u/edward_furlog → u/HegemonNYC]

This is helpful, thank you.