I hated wearing dresses, hated playing with dolls, and was never interested in babies like the other girls. I remember sitting in Spanish class when the teacher had her baby, all the other girls were up with her looking at it. All the boys were sitting in their desks talking about sports or whatever else they're into. I was all by myself interested in none of that. I was into legos too. But none of that made me a boy trapped in a girl's body.
What people call gender is simply personality and stereotypes. I never knew we had so many believers in those stereotypes in my life. It's shocking that people are doing this to children.
We should be teaching people to love who they are, and not teaching them to hate their own bodies. It's insane. If the medical community wasn't captured it would be called insanity.
I was a total tomboy: I always liked playing with boys better than girls, I rode bikes, climbed trees, played “smear the queer” (before it was bad), and hated wearing dresses. I cut the hair off my dolls, played “Kimba” and “Speed Racer”, loved reading “The Three Investigators”, and at 8, I wanted nothing more than to be (a) 12 and (b) a boy.
I turned out to be a straight woman. By 16, I could rock a miniskirt and 5” heels like few could. After 30+ years of marriage, bearing and rearing a child, enduring menopause, and embracing traditional gender roles, I’m still not sure what “being a woman” is supposed to feel like...and I’m 100% okay with that.
My grandmother took me, at two, to visit my mom in the hospital when she had my brother. My mom asked how I was and I said, ‘I’m fine, but Grandma made me wear this petticoat.’ I often wonder if many girls naturally gravitate to ‘girly things’, or if it’s just that some fight the indoctrination more, as I threw the pink ‘toy’ ironing board I was given at 5 on the ground in frustration, because I knew that wasn’t really a toy.
I was given a toy ironing board and kitchen set, while my brother got ‘cool’ toys like legos and transformers. I liked math, another activity, girls were not encouraged to do. I understood that I was being groomed to conform to unfair societal gender roles and threw the ironing board on the ground. I was livid, at 5 years old.
I hated wearing dresses, hated playing with dolls, and was never interested in babies like the other girls. I remember sitting in Spanish class when the teacher had her baby, all the other girls were up with her looking at it. All the boys were sitting in their desks talking about sports or whatever else they're into. I was all by myself interested in none of that. I was into legos too. But none of that made me a boy trapped in a girl's body.
What people call gender is simply personality and stereotypes. I never knew we had so many believers in those stereotypes in my life. It's shocking that people are doing this to children.
We should be teaching people to love who they are, and not teaching them to hate their own bodies. It's insane. If the medical community wasn't captured it would be called insanity.
I was a total tomboy: I always liked playing with boys better than girls, I rode bikes, climbed trees, played “smear the queer” (before it was bad), and hated wearing dresses. I cut the hair off my dolls, played “Kimba” and “Speed Racer”, loved reading “The Three Investigators”, and at 8, I wanted nothing more than to be (a) 12 and (b) a boy.
I turned out to be a straight woman. By 16, I could rock a miniskirt and 5” heels like few could. After 30+ years of marriage, bearing and rearing a child, enduring menopause, and embracing traditional gender roles, I’m still not sure what “being a woman” is supposed to feel like...and I’m 100% okay with that.
Those tom-girls were the girls I liked to hang with as a young boy. They were cool.
My grandmother took me, at two, to visit my mom in the hospital when she had my brother. My mom asked how I was and I said, ‘I’m fine, but Grandma made me wear this petticoat.’ I often wonder if many girls naturally gravitate to ‘girly things’, or if it’s just that some fight the indoctrination more, as I threw the pink ‘toy’ ironing board I was given at 5 on the ground in frustration, because I knew that wasn’t really a toy.
I was given a toy ironing board and kitchen set, while my brother got ‘cool’ toys like legos and transformers. I liked math, another activity, girls were not encouraged to do. I understood that I was being groomed to conform to unfair societal gender roles and threw the ironing board on the ground. I was livid, at 5 years old.