RE ...re ...Spot On!

Troy MI

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I appreciate your honesty in that you are unable to identify when you knew you were male, and that for you it was mailable, fluid, subject to interference by parental conditioning. "Developing as a man is a life long process. You lose me when you ask when I decided my gender identity?" Perhaps that might be reason for your over reaction to the phenomenon knows as gender incongruence of childhood. I can't remember before about age five, but my earliest memories was of knowing I was male. I loved to play "boy's" games and with boy's toys. Had you tried to force me to play with dolls, doll houses, jacks, hop-scotch, jump rope etc., I would just be bored and would not have participated. In middle school, just to listen to girl's conversation was more tedious than a history lesson. To have forced me to wear a dress, my hair in the style of little girls would have been torture. To send me out into the public where others then would treat me like a girl would be shameful, degrading, giving me feelings of depression and gross powerlessness over life and my situation. That my friend is exactly what a transgendered child deals with daily, often for decades. Live and let live.