Yeah, I was a Tomboy. Transgender wasnt even a thought, I loved animals and didnt care for frills, I had a few dolls as a young kid but I also wanted toy guns with holsters and boots with spurs. getting your period sucks, cramps, etc, I got over it, no one made a big deal about it, I remember my first holy communion, and that dress, and white shoes, after the photos in the living room, and before our family Sunday dinner, I rushed into my room and took off the stupid dress and got into my pants and a tshirt, my grandma said "hooray, thats my little girl, she's back". No big deal. I still muck around in the barn and my hair, depending on the season, grows longish or gets cut shaggy and short. I am a woman, I dont see that having been a tomboy changed that at all. The media is the place that teen girls are sexualized to all look like these slutty pop stars, but that is not what a woman is, same with drag queens, that is not what a woman is. I clean up real good, but everyday life I am wearing yoga pants AND flannel shirts and shitkickers. I would not like to be Amish because of those long dresses and doiley hats, lol, omg no. Nor do I wear toxic nail polish, and just a touch of make up for special occasions, like my Mom. I love being a woman, we are the nurturers and healers and moms and grans, and we do have wisdom and strength enough to push out babies and have no sleep for the first 3 years and get up and make dinner, and willing to protect our young with any weapon available to us. Hormones and clothing do not change you into the opposite sex. I would tell her that all her feelings about being uncomfortable are not abnormal, but changing into another sex is.
Yeah, I was a Tomboy. Transgender wasnt even a thought, I loved animals and didnt care for frills, I had a few dolls as a young kid but I also wanted toy guns with holsters and boots with spurs. getting your period sucks, cramps, etc, I got over it, no one made a big deal about it, I remember my first holy communion, and that dress, and white shoes, after the photos in the living room, and before our family Sunday dinner, I rushed into my room and took off the stupid dress and got into my pants and a tshirt, my grandma said "hooray, thats my little girl, she's back". No big deal. I still muck around in the barn and my hair, depending on the season, grows longish or gets cut shaggy and short. I am a woman, I dont see that having been a tomboy changed that at all. The media is the place that teen girls are sexualized to all look like these slutty pop stars, but that is not what a woman is, same with drag queens, that is not what a woman is. I clean up real good, but everyday life I am wearing yoga pants AND flannel shirts and shitkickers. I would not like to be Amish because of those long dresses and doiley hats, lol, omg no. Nor do I wear toxic nail polish, and just a touch of make up for special occasions, like my Mom. I love being a woman, we are the nurturers and healers and moms and grans, and we do have wisdom and strength enough to push out babies and have no sleep for the first 3 years and get up and make dinner, and willing to protect our young with any weapon available to us. Hormones and clothing do not change you into the opposite sex. I would tell her that all her feelings about being uncomfortable are not abnormal, but changing into another sex is.