My mom is mentally ill. She was raped in high school, gave birth to a boy, and put him up for adoption. She got married asap after school and had another kid in an attempt to replace the one she lost. It was a girl. Eventually she divorced and got married to my dad. Had me (also girl) and then my brother. They divorced when my brother was 4 months old (I was 4 years). She sterilized herself shortly after the divorce because "mission accomplished" basically.
My mom spent most of her time trying to influence me away from girly things and my brother could do no wrong. I was always a bit of a tomboy admittedly (I loved playing Sega and watching the original run of Power Rangers) and still am, but she pushed it past that. "Oh you want to buy THAT? Why? It's pink, ew. That's for girly girls. You don't want that." Things like that. I wasn't allowed to experiment with makeup. I wasn't allowed to do anything with my hair (straightening, styling, etc). I wasn't allowed to date (first date happened in college as a result, which isn't good). Long list of things. I'm still very tomboyish, but I'm trying to learn to embrace femininity now. It's hard as hell to tell the difference between being female in certain traits and this popular thot culture.
I was born in 1988 so this transitioning crap wasn't around when I was growing up. My mom has an adult friend who "is trans" and has gone through the ENTIRE process of this in his 60s to pretend to be a woman. This includes the surgery for the gaping gash they pretend is a vagina. My mom is 100% supportive. If this shit was around when I was a kid, my mother would have forced me into transition so she could have "another boy" to raise. Sometimes the parents are the cause of this, not just powerless to stop it.
My mom is mentally ill. She was raped in high school, gave birth to a boy, and put him up for adoption. She got married asap after school and had another kid in an attempt to replace the one she lost. It was a girl. Eventually she divorced and got married to my dad. Had me (also girl) and then my brother. They divorced when my brother was 4 months old (I was 4 years). She sterilized herself shortly after the divorce because "mission accomplished" basically.
My mom spent most of her time trying to influence me away from girly things and my brother could do no wrong. I was always a bit of a tomboy admittedly (I loved playing Sega and watching the original run of Power Rangers) and still am, but she pushed it past that. "Oh you want to buy THAT? Why? It's pink, ew. That's for girly girls. You don't want that." Things like that. I wasn't allowed to experiment with makeup. I wasn't allowed to do anything with my hair (straightening, styling, etc). I wasn't allowed to date (first date happened in college as a result, which isn't good). Long list of things. I'm still very tomboyish, but I'm trying to learn to embrace femininity now. It's hard as hell to tell the difference between being female in certain traits and this popular thot culture.
I was born in 1988 so this transitioning crap wasn't around when I was growing up. My mom has an adult friend who "is trans" and has gone through the ENTIRE process of this in his 60s to pretend to be a woman. This includes the surgery for the gaping gash they pretend is a vagina. My mom is 100% supportive. If this shit was around when I was a kid, my mother would have forced me into transition so she could have "another boy" to raise. Sometimes the parents are the cause of this, not just powerless to stop it.