In turn, the behavior of family and friends, and the experience of having his pre-transition photos displayed, make Felix feel he wouldn’t be enough for any lover. Ezra Patel, Felix’s best friend, is sensitive and understanding, but another “friend” is revealed to be trans exclusionary. His father helped Felix transition, but he can’t bring himself to say Felix’s name. One of the most notable things about this book is how it shows the harmful effect of transmisia on Felix’s self-worth. Their friendship is never depicted as perfect, nor as competitive, but as a relationship based on support, care, and honest communication. They do all of this while examining Ezra’s class privilege as the child of wealthy parents and the pressure that Felix feels as a child of a working-class father. As a rebuttal, Ezra points this out without invalidating Felix’s feelings. At one point, Felix and Ezra fight because Felix is projecting his insecurities onto Ezra.
Felix’s friendship with Ezra is wonderful and complex, in that they have fun together but also have hard, honest discussions about their future and themselves. In fact, Felix’s relationships with family and friends are notable for their joy as well as their pain.
Through his experiences with others, Felix Love must look at who and what should determine his self-worth.
When his pre-transition photos are leaked for the world to see, he must figure out the culprit while examining his own sense of self and what kind of love he deserves. In Kacen Callender’s Felix After Ever, protagonist Felix Love is an artistic trans boy who wants to experience romantic love. To that end, it is often up to QTPOC to support each other and show each other that we are worthy of life, love, and happiness. Our race often means that we are ignored among the LGBTQ+ community, while our gender identity and sexual orientation get scorned or overlooked among allocishet people of color. Having a sense of self-worth is important for any LGBTQ+ person, but especially for queer trans people of color.
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