I really didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, or demean anyone. I should have phrased the question differently, perhaps?
From very early in my childhood, I felt an interest and affinity with the girl's side of things. I remember arguing with my parents and grandparents about which way round to wear my underpants .. I did not like the "Y fronts" which marked me out as a boy and wanted to reverse them so that they were smooth at the front. I was reprimanded at infant school for wanting to play with the girls in the "Wendy House".
I can now, some fifty years on, grasp the significance of overheard whispered adult conversations about how I would have been named Victoria, and it has recently struck me that when my grandmother painted my face, encouraged me to learn knitting and, believe it or not, gave me instruction on the best way to put on a bra ( theory not practical, I hasten to add .. start with it "upside down, inside out and back-to-front, if you were wondering?) .. she had a bit of an insight into something! At about age seven, I had devised a way of fashioning my pyjama jacket into a makeshift skirt so that I could enjoy clandestinely, alone at home, doing handstands and having my "skirt" fall around my face like the girls at school did at playtime.
... sorry, this is turning into a big essay about myself which I'll continue later and elsewhere, it's irrelevant to this thread I was silly enough to start .. "where angels fear to tread, fools rush in", as they say ..
Briefly, as it's bedtime, all I was trying to say is that GGs (genetic girls ? have I got that right?) deal with issues that we non-GGs, however feminine, sympathetic and wise, just don't.
Originally Posted by ReineD
