This sounds very much like my childhood. I spent most of it with my brother and his friends, doing all the "boy" stuff, including "sword fights" with sticks, chase games, and catching bugs and lizards and snakes. I played little league baseball on an otherwise all boys team. (Not out of any desire to push feminism or anything like that. I just thought baseball was fun and the only teams around were boys' teams.) I always loved science and math, and competed on math teams.
But I never imagined that I was a boy. I grew up into a feminine woman and had four kids. To this day, though, I prefer socializing with males. I'd rather play video games or watch movies where stuff blows up than talk fashion or watch a rom-com.
If I were growing up today and showing interest in all of those "boy" things, adults around me would be telling me I was a boy trapped in a girl's body and trying to get me to transition. And if I listened to them, and started in on the hormones before puberty, I'd be permanently sterilizing myself so that I could never have children.
It's ironic to me how the pro-transgender movement is rigidly reinforcing gender stereotypes that feminists had just spent decades trying to get out from under. Girls wear makeup and dresses. Girls like pink and play with dolls, etc, etc. Any girl that doesn't fit neatly into those stereotypes these days must actually be a boy who must be "helped" and "encouraged" to transition. Why can't people just accept that some girls like "boy" things and leave them alone to be who they are?
This sounds very much like my childhood. I spent most of it with my brother and his friends, doing all the "boy" stuff, including "sword fights" with sticks, chase games, and catching bugs and lizards and snakes. I played little league baseball on an otherwise all boys team. (Not out of any desire to push feminism or anything like that. I just thought baseball was fun and the only teams around were boys' teams.) I always loved science and math, and competed on math teams.
But I never imagined that I was a boy. I grew up into a feminine woman and had four kids. To this day, though, I prefer socializing with males. I'd rather play video games or watch movies where stuff blows up than talk fashion or watch a rom-com.
If I were growing up today and showing interest in all of those "boy" things, adults around me would be telling me I was a boy trapped in a girl's body and trying to get me to transition. And if I listened to them, and started in on the hormones before puberty, I'd be permanently sterilizing myself so that I could never have children.
It's ironic to me how the pro-transgender movement is rigidly reinforcing gender stereotypes that feminists had just spent decades trying to get out from under. Girls wear makeup and dresses. Girls like pink and play with dolls, etc, etc. Any girl that doesn't fit neatly into those stereotypes these days must actually be a boy who must be "helped" and "encouraged" to transition. Why can't people just accept that some girls like "boy" things and leave them alone to be who they are?