My cousin is 14, born a female and now "out" as a ftm transgender. It's honestly a sad story. She knows I'm conservative but we talked about it for a while and why she wants to be a boy.
She said puberty was uncomfortable and she hated getting her period. She's always been athletic so she didn't like that boys got stronger and better at sports than her as she got older. "It feels like no matter how hard I try as a girl I'll never be as good so nothing is worth it." - her words. She said she thought girly stuff was stupid and never really liked it, and that she was afraid of being sexualized as she got older. She said she thinks she's trans because all her friends are boys and she never liked wearing dresses and stuff.
Interestingly enough, she's actually kind of conservative for her age on a lot of issues. She's made fun of Biden before and likes hunting and fishing and stuff. She likes Trump.
Just thought I'd offer a first person account I guess. It's a sad story.
I've always been more interested in sci fi than chick flicks. I grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein. I collected comic books. I like computers, I like power tools, I prefer to watch construction videos to make up tutorials. I just bought a new gaming computer and I'm in my fifties, yet I'm very much a woman. I fix things around the house and do yard work. I can't cook worth a darn I burn grilled cheese sandwiches. Y
Tell your cousin that being a woman is awesome, to be herself. Just because you like guy things does not make you a guy it just means you have different interests there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I don't own a dress, I get along better with men than I do women, my shoes consist of hey dudes and crocs. But I'm still very much a woman.
Wow! A lot of that sounds like me. SciFi, computers, power tools, tools in general, construction videos, action movies, do some small repairs around the apartment. I do make sourdough bread, kombucha, and kefir and cook for myself--nothing fancy, but decent food. Never was interested in makeup, dolls, hated dresses and do not own any, I like functional shoes versus girly shoes, had a couple of motorcycles, drive a stick and always have......I am really appreciating hearing other tomboys speak up--it's been pretty solitary.
You're not alone. Lol it kind of runs in my family. My own mom loved working on the farm working in the field she could drive tractors, and combines, her sisters did too. My mom could also drive semi, and she was foreman for a road construction company. She was also a great bookkeeper, and a cook. One of my aunts work for a construction company, another worked in a warehouse they earned good pay for what they did this was back in the 70s and 80s not normal jobs for women. The only time I ever saw my mom cry about something she couldn't do was when she needed to hem curtains. I do love to crochet, read, and I can sew sort of, well enough to hem curtains for my mom lol. Oh I'm 57 I grew up being me instead of what someone expected of me. I do have dress clothes for when the occasion calls for it, although I'm much happier in jeans and a casual top.