Yes! As a tomboy growing up, I wanted to be a boy and hid from my mother that I’d hit puberty. When she figured it out and confronted me, she did authentic “gender-confirming care,” telling me that she loved me just the way I am and that I could still play with boys and grow up to wear suits and carry a briefcase…and still be a woman.
My mom normalized my “gender non-conformity,” whereas today, financially motivated doctors and therapists are normalizing gender transition for kids like me, distorting the definition of gender affirming care.
I shudder at the thought that I would not be celebrating Valentine’s Day with my husband or have my amazing son. We must bring back the common sense wisdom of my Mom. No child is born in the wrong body. “Don’t go changing…I love you just the way you are,” as Billy Joel put it!
Same here, although I never wanted to be a boy. I am so glad that I grew up before all this happened, though, because there was a point in my early teens when I might have been manipulated into transitioning. I would have been miserable (or dead by now) had I done so. I'm still a tomboy, but my husband knows I'm also all woman.
Yes! As a tomboy growing up, I wanted to be a boy and hid from my mother that I’d hit puberty. When she figured it out and confronted me, she did authentic “gender-confirming care,” telling me that she loved me just the way I am and that I could still play with boys and grow up to wear suits and carry a briefcase…and still be a woman.
My mom normalized my “gender non-conformity,” whereas today, financially motivated doctors and therapists are normalizing gender transition for kids like me, distorting the definition of gender affirming care.
I shudder at the thought that I would not be celebrating Valentine’s Day with my husband or have my amazing son. We must bring back the common sense wisdom of my Mom. No child is born in the wrong body. “Don’t go changing…I love you just the way you are,” as Billy Joel put it!
Same here, although I never wanted to be a boy. I am so glad that I grew up before all this happened, though, because there was a point in my early teens when I might have been manipulated into transitioning. I would have been miserable (or dead by now) had I done so. I'm still a tomboy, but my husband knows I'm also all woman.