The other day a few friends and I got into what I thought was a playful fight about our opinions on the whole “Boy Scout” or “Scouts” thing. It was all good until on of my friends left our group chat because of it. He is a white, cis male who we’ll call Scout. I added Scout back in and we all stopped talking about it. Now, a few days later and my other friend, an Asian cis girl who we can call Mary. Mary tells me some tea and about why she wasn’t gettin along with other people who I’m friends with and she was once friends with. Then she drops a bombshell on me. She sends me a text message between her and Scout where Scout is completely invalidating me and saying that me being genderfluid isn’t real and I honestly don’t know what to think or do. Scout is one of my best friends who I’ve trusted with the fact that I’m genderfluid and now I don’t know anymore. I love Scout so much, but I feel so hurt and attacked because this is the type of stuff my dad says which really, really hurts me. People who I love and trust invalidating me and berating me, especially behind my back, is one of the reasons why I fell into a dark hole that I never want to go back to. I don’t know how to handle this. I just really need some advice right now.