A boys Life

[CherryLynn]

I started reading "A Boys life by Hanna Rosin, in the Nov issue Of the Atlantic. Have any of you girls had the chance to red it yet? There another post that dealt with the issue of gender indentity- Hope this adds to the discussion.

Today's wisdom about gender id- is that "we are prewired for many things previously thought to be in the realm of upbringing and choice."

Rosin mentions that transgender children can now be treated with
puberty blockers. Puts a hold on puberty- prevents boys from growing
facial hair and body hair,or developing a deep voice, etc.

Would of any of you girls have taken a shot if it had been offered?

[DonnaT]

Only if I had thought I should have been born a girl.

[Absaroka]

Maybe to block puberty because growing up scared me, but not to be more like a girl.

Absaroka

[Leeza]

I don't think I would have taken a shot. By the time I was starting cding my voice had already changed. Although I was not anxious to start shaving so maybe I would have just to stop the facial hair.

Leeza

[CherryLynn]

never thought that I was trapped in a male body but I might have taken a shot just to suspend puberty for a while. Being a teenage guy, homones surging- body changing, wasn't easy.

[Jaye]

If the shot had been available when I was that age, hell yeah, I'd have taken it. Pre-puberty, I was five-four and weighed maybe ninety pounds. I remember feeling like all of my mom's old clothes (not stuff she was actually wearing at the time) were made for me, because everything fit like it was supposed to (except the bras, natch). Once testosterone and all were done with me it was more like five eleven and a half and one-seventy. The "I feel like a girl" argument made more sense when I was small and dainty, but lost a lot of weight when I filled out. If only...

[Bernice]

I would have taken that shot in a New York Minute - except that my Parents would have had me euthanized long before they would have allowed me to get such a shot. Had I managed to go around them, my mother would have suspended her views on gun control just long enough to shoot me.

She passed away this last April, so that's one less thing I have to worry about. I inherited half, and she went to meet her maker thinking I "outgrew" my crossdressing. Sorry for digressing - didn't mean to hijack your thread.

Hugs,

Bernice

[CherryLynn]

Bernice

Mom was able to deal with my attempts to be girly- she even dolled me up for Halloween a couple of times. She believed I was just going thru a phase- something I would outgrow and for a while she was right. It would have been wonderful to be pre pubescent til 16-18.

Dad had an issue with me- used the words- "sissy, fag"etc when talking about me.

[Carol Ann]

I have said this before, as a teenager I was very very unhappy and when I got caught by my mother she know already and said " honey if it makes you happy".
I got to dress everyday after school but we had to keep it a big secret. My life changed after that and I was much happyier .

Remember now this was in the late 50 and there was no internet.

[Carolynn]

Had that shot been available, and my parents different, I would have been glad to have it. As it was, I was given "corrective" testosterone shots for 16 months instead. Yeah Carol Ann, the '50s were kinda different alright, but at least you had an understanding mom rather than a Southern Baptist true believer and a quetly homophobic father. And they knew from my birth that I might be gender variant. They agreed to the two surgeries to make me sort of male.

[Stephanie H]

Science Fiction was not part of my vocabulary when I was pre-teen.
Would never have even understood the issue, therefore, I can not be so assuming as to have had the awarness to take the shot.

[Edyta_C]

Well I would have taken it. My Mom wanted a girl so badly that for the first five+ yrs I was raised as a girl. Then my Dad stepped in and "restored sanity" to his way of thinking. I wanted to be a girl, not because I felt like one inside exactly but I thought my Mom would love me more. The shots would have allowed me to keep her fantasy and would have kept me calm for most of my years. Of course my Dad would never have allowed the shots. Now much later I am happy half way in between guy and girl.

Hugs Edyta

[CherryLynn]

To be honest I was never much of a boy- never was a boy scout, did dress up as a girl scout, and hated sports, quiet, shy. Played with my sister's barbie dolls quite often and always a was book worm.
hugs
Cheryl

[Ann Stef]

Only if I knew from the beginning that I defenitely had girl characteristics. Now that I know I have fem desires, too old to have a socalled miracle shots