I was a very early developer. Periods and a c cup at nine years old - I am only five foot tall now, so at this time I was much shorter than all of my classmates. With bigger boobs than some of the teachers. And periods.
Everyone - girls and boys - was both bigger than me and fascinated by my tiny woman-child body. They gave me a nickname, 'rabbitwoman' and the mountains (my actual name begins with an M so it sounded better than that!)
An early memory I have is when we were doing the school play. The teachers had us all changing in the classroom together. I was so embarassed; trying to hide my 'mountains' taking my shirt off, held it in front of me. A load of boys were throwing things at me to trick me into catching them, thus dropping my shirt. So, I took myself off to the empty changing rooms for some privacy.
A teacher came and shouted at me to get back into the classroom. I tried to explain - but of course, to them I was a 9 year old child, they did not see me as a woman-child in need of privacy, dignity or protection from leering boys. Those boys themselves were only 9. So in the eyes of the teacher, not predators, not dangerous, only playing, only being silly.
And now, when we are being given training on the dangers of child on child sexual abuse, we are abandoning little, scared, embarrassed girls like I was to attack and abuse.
Just heart breaking.