Leon does pick up on the fact that Lev's still not looking him in the eye - the nerves over the conversation making him pay special attention to body language on top of his own ingrained habits from being a cop - but it doesn't look like Lev's trying to lie to him or anything so much as just being a little awkward. He doesn't think it's worth making anything of it.
"Right," he says, still looking a little confused but like he's trying his best to understand and closer to it than he was earlier. Though the look of puppylike bafflement comes back when Lev confirms that his husband is, assuming he's understanding right, also transgender. It's only by the grace of his already being on high alert for saying anything stupid that he catches himself before blurting out that he didn't think trans men could also be gay at the same time.
Like, of course they can? Why wouldn't they be able to do that? But the thought had simply never occurred to Leon before, and thinking about it now makes him feel something weird and undefinable in a way that makes him uneasy. Thankfully the barmaid saves him from having to respond quickly by coming back with their drinks, buying him some time to recover his composure.
"I'll be sure to remember that," he says, and then realizes that's maybe a strange thing to say about someone's pronouns. Too late now, though! "Uh, thanks for explaining. I'm... kind of new to all this. There being people who aren't just doing one or the other, when it comes to gender."
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"Right," he says, still looking a little confused but like he's trying his best to understand and closer to it than he was earlier. Though the look of puppylike bafflement comes back when Lev confirms that his husband is, assuming he's understanding right, also transgender. It's only by the grace of his already being on high alert for saying anything stupid that he catches himself before blurting out that he didn't think trans men could also be gay at the same time.
Like, of course they can? Why wouldn't they be able to do that? But the thought had simply never occurred to Leon before, and thinking about it now makes him feel something weird and undefinable in a way that makes him uneasy. Thankfully the barmaid saves him from having to respond quickly by coming back with their drinks, buying him some time to recover his composure.
"I'll be sure to remember that," he says, and then realizes that's maybe a strange thing to say about someone's pronouns. Too late now, though! "Uh, thanks for explaining. I'm... kind of new to all this. There being people who aren't just doing one or the other, when it comes to gender."