Again I am fairly new to this and apologise if covering old ground. Not as articulate as some but tend to ask what’s on my mind.
Until recently I had little or no experience of girls choosing to transition to boys or women to men.
I live and work in fairly liberal circles fairly familiar with cross-dressers and transwomen.
A lot has been said about gender stereotyping - pink, sparkles = girl.
It does seem the number of teen girls wanting to transition is increasing.
To me the problem is we have never seen girls so hyper sexualised and the outward attributes of being female having such importance as do today. Girls in pop and music wear as little as possible, cosmetic surgery and lip fillers are normalised, breast and butt jobs, lip fillers, talon-like nails, waxed and hair-free.
If you are not a woman of the reality TV, Love Island, Kardashian ilk puberty must be tougher than ever.
More than ever to succeed as a woman you don’t just have to be prettified you have to be enhanced. It makes sense to me that more girls do not want to become women in this climate.
I can imagine now is a pretty shit time to be a boyish girl.