Recently on facebook I saw a post going around with my trans acquaintances where a trans woman refers to her pre-transition self as being in her “tomboy phase” and that she “was so good at it people even called [her] a boy”, and everyone treated it as a cute and genius idea. That honestly might have been the last straw for me.



That is nothing like the experience of growing up a tomboy, not even close. We don’t get called boys and treated like them, we get scolded for having interests outside of performing femininity and criticized for everything we do. We get told to dress nicer, to play nicer, that the boys won’t ever like us if we act the way we do, that one day we’ll care about all that. We get forced by our parents to change our behavior, we get denied the hobbies we care about and the clothing suited to doing those things. The media bombards us with pretty, conventionally feminine girls to the point that sometimes we feel like we can’t possibly be girls.



Your boyhood is nothing like growing up a tomboyish girl, stop retroactively assigning yourself female existence.

