Response to the transgender thread from a few weeks ago..

Not sure who remembers, but there was a video floating around on Facebook about a little girl who acted like a boy, so her parents have basically made her a boy.

There was a lengthy thread about it, which I posted a little in, but admittedly didn't pay much attention to the full story.

Well, I came across this response to the story today, and I thought those participating in that thread would like it since it was pretty much unanimous that her parents are making a life choice for her at too young an age.

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Anyhow, even as a baby I seemed to prefer “boy” things. I was rough, tough, and daring. My parents had to cut my curly hair short because I would twist it into knots and refused to let my parents brush it. I once managed to make my way onto the second story roof, and was gleefully running around, as my parents had simultaneous panic-attacks. My toys of choice were sticks, sling-shots, bows & arrows, guns, mud, motorcycles, and monsters. When my sister and I picked out “My LIttle Ponies” I chose a blue one, and promptly cut all of that lustrous long hair off as short as possible. My barbie also got the chop. I loved going on hunting trips with my dad and thought it was amazing when he taught me to pop the head off a dove. (PETA, please, no…just. No.)

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Thankfully, my parents didn’t adhere to the archaic stereotypes that “boys like blue” and “girls like pink;” that “boys play with dinosaurs, and girls play with dolls.”

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They just let me be me. They let me be a girl who wore jeans more often than skirts. They let me play with slingshots rather than princess wands. They didn’t conclude that I was gay, or transgender. They didn’t put me in a box that would shape my future, at the expense of my own free will.

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Fast forward to age 14/15 (late bloomer here) and I finally started going through puberty. I had never really thought of the opposite sex in a sexual manner before. My attraction was immediately, and is to this day, towards men. At the risk of going all Shania on you, I “feel” like a woman. Had my parents decided, at age 5, that I was a boy, I can not imagine the confusion that I would have experienced during my teen years. I still love some stereotypical “male” things.

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She's pretty hot too..