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.
Show her this comment thread. Nobody's judging her or making fun of her, just expressing sorrow for her confusion and trying to help you find more ways to share the truth, that God made her correctly, that she is perfect as the woman that God made her. There is nothing she can ever do to match up to the physicality of men, and that's a good thing. There aren't FTM athletes dominating sports for a good reason.
God gave us special gifts as men and women, and it is important that we embrace our strengths and lean on one another to shore up our weaknesses.
No woman likes getting her period. Our society has tried to separate the natural function of our bodies and sex from the purpose of these things- which is reproduction. We are made in God's image to love and to create, and there is no greater fulfillment of that purpose than creating a child out of your own body to love.