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Recognising that I was not “normal”

I’ve been dreaming of being a girl and secretly cross dressing for so many years, I take it for granted, but it had a beginning. The cliche idea of a trans person is of the little boy who wanted to play with dolls and dress up, but that wasn’t me. I had a pretty conventional ‘boy’ childhood. I assumed I was a bit and would grow up and do boy things, and marry a girl and carry on being normal. However, around puberty arriving I guess I started to think differently. We had the “special lessons” to learn about the differences between our bodies and what was going to change. I was fascinated by what I learned about girls and their bodies. I wondered what a bra would feel like, what a period is like, how does it feel to wear a sanitary towel?  Sounds like silly things for a boy to wonder, but it captured my imagination. I used to try to imagine the feelings and in my head, all my fantasies were of being a girl or being turned into a girl. I had a weird fantasy of being locked into an...