Would you have transitioned if you were a child today?

[isabeltydoria]

This question was asked on another forum, but I wanted to copy my answer here too and ask it here too (I hope that's okay?)

Would you have transitioned if you were a child today?

Just a yes or no would be interesting if you don't feel like commenting further; I'll put my (long!) reply into a comment.

I don't quite know what you mean by "trans gender IS gender" but I agree that all stereotypical gender norms are bad ideas, and seem bent on making people into (often warped versions of) sex objects.

No I would't. I didn't like periods or certain other aspects of being a girl but I always wanted to have my own children, and wouldn't have done anything that might have prevented that.

Just to add, I also had one GNC little boy, who liked all the stereotypically girly things. I let him to do and dress as he wanted at home but outside the home he had to dress in boys clothes. This was to protect him from bullying. Tbh, I'd take exactly the same approach today. We live in quite a traditional area and boys in dresses aren't really a thing as far as I can see. Not sure about girls who present or identify as boys, it's harder to tell really.You don't really see much of the very feminine look (heavy make up, high heels, very long hair, etc) here either, at least not during the day so perhaps girls can feel a bit more comfortable and relaxed.

Nope

@isabeltydoria I mean the process by which a person begins to identify as trans is the same process which causes girls to succumb to exploitation and boys to develop toxic masculinity. It isn't such a leap to absorb the gender identity associated with the opposite sex. It is all just part of gender. I agree that gender is now thought to be a good thing, much more so than it was when I was young.

Which us a very bad thing

Yes! But I love being a woman now. ( not the cultural expectations, but the actual experience of being a woman .

Definitely, yes , I hated puberty, found periods really hard and had terrible pain with them. I was very sporty. I found getting periods really interfeared with this.
I pretty much stopped sport when my periods started.
Also my brother had more freedom than me and I think their was an underlying message that his education and fulfilment was more important than mine.
I would have jumped at the chance.

It took me a long time to really embrace being a woman and to realise how magnificent my body was.

My periods stopped for a while in my 20s when I was ill and I was really upset. After that I realised periods are amazing , they mean I’m healthy and actually it’s the womb lining and that’s what we live in the first 9 months of our lives.

Soooo glad I’m not a teenager now. I would have done it for sure and lived to regret it later.