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.
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.