I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.
I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.
It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.
It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.
I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.
A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.
I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.