When did you all know you were who you are? did all you CIS females all know you were female from an early age? they why can't trans kids know they are trans from an early age?
I'm not cis, thanks.
And I was aware I was female from an early age because I was informed of the fact. To me, it meant nothing in terms of interests etc., all it meant was I had a vagina and would grow up to be a woman, like my mother, and not a man, like my father.
I hated dolls. I loved Polly Pocket and Puppy in my Pocket etc. because I liked miniature things. Which is also why I loved Micro Machines and toy cars in general, and I also loved educational games and Lego. I grew up loving cycling, building things, playing computer games, riding horses. I was intensely aware of pressures put on me from pre-teen onwards to like 'girly' stuff, start playing with make-up, be attractive to and liked by boys, wear skirts. I felt a deep sense of wrongness about all of this.
I wondered whether it was me, whether I should have been a boy, whether I was a lesbian, whether there was just something wrong with me. I also somewhere, deep down, recognised the unfairness of it all. Thankfully I grew up long enough ago that I was allowed to get through the teen years and gradually realise where these pressures come from and grow into myself and accept myself. Had I been growing up now I'm 100% sure I'd be identifying as a boy. And miserable regardless, because I am a normal woman who is obviously not a fucking man just because I was made to feel abnormal and oppressed by gender stereotypes and patriarchal pressures to objectify and sexualise myself for the male gaze.
I feel desperately sorry for all girls (and boys) going through similar struggles now. The suggestion that they might have been born in the wrong body is such a cruel lie to tell to impressionable people.