Like other comments, this article is so spot on. Being a child of the 70's there was no general awareness of the trans community. After puberty and in the 80's I just thought I was the weird kid that didn't quite fit in, and was always more comfortable hanging out with friends that were female. Then a cycle of buy-and-purge femme items, …
Like other comments, this article is so spot on. Being a child of the 70's there was no general awareness of the trans community. After puberty and in the 80's I just thought I was the weird kid that didn't quite fit in, and was always more comfortable hanging out with friends that were female. Then a cycle of buy-and-purge femme items, because "it's just a kink".
It wasn't until the birth of my second child that I could definitively say to myself that I was trans, but then it was another 17 years before I could verbalize that to another person. I grieve the time lost being miserable trying to live up to what I felt society demanded of me, but I also am determined to enjoy my time left in the world just being myself.
Like other comments, this article is so spot on. Being a child of the 70's there was no general awareness of the trans community. After puberty and in the 80's I just thought I was the weird kid that didn't quite fit in, and was always more comfortable hanging out with friends that were female. Then a cycle of buy-and-purge femme items, because "it's just a kink".
It wasn't until the birth of my second child that I could definitively say to myself that I was trans, but then it was another 17 years before I could verbalize that to another person. I grieve the time lost being miserable trying to live up to what I felt society demanded of me, but I also am determined to enjoy my time left in the world just being myself.