We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.