totally agree! To top it all off, I matured early (had my first period at 9, then skipped a year and started in earnest at 11) and hated to have to wear those uncomfortable "belts" and try to keep them centered while wearing them! I also developed breasts around age 9 and was extremely embarrassed by them. Absolutely none of my friends had them (or periods) and I was horrified by my own body...:-) Most of my friends in HS were boys and I was never very "girly". BUT the thought never crossed my mind that maybe I was a boy in disguise. Now that we've given those girls the option of being a boy instead... But what if, as trans men later on, they aren't attracted to women like a man would be, so they have to become gay men instead? It's so confusing-moreso than getting thru adolescence as a tom boy!
totally agree! To top it all off, I matured early (had my first period at 9, then skipped a year and started in earnest at 11) and hated to have to wear those uncomfortable "belts" and try to keep them centered while wearing them! I also developed breasts around age 9 and was extremely embarrassed by them. Absolutely none of my friends had them (or periods) and I was horrified by my own body...:-) Most of my friends in HS were boys and I was never very "girly". BUT the thought never crossed my mind that maybe I was a boy in disguise. Now that we've given those girls the option of being a boy instead... But what if, as trans men later on, they aren't attracted to women like a man would be, so they have to become gay men instead? It's so confusing-moreso than getting thru adolescence as a tom boy!
Yeah, the belts were the worst!