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I began seriously wishing I was a girl when I entered 7th grade and had to go to gym class. I couldn't do any of the boy things, like chinups and rope climbs, because my body was soft, arms weak and hips wide. It was humiliating, but then snuck into some girl gym outfits, and liked how sweet I looked.
How many others experienced same or similar experiences?
Actually no. I played football in high school & hockey when I was younger.
That was definitly me, I was always weak, mainly due to hormone issues, etc. I have never been able to do a chinup, etc.
Middle School was the worst time of my life.
Mandy
i never realy did the gym thing i always was out smokeing and hanging out ..
that sweaty gym thingy was not my thing....
7th grade P.E. was a nightmare for me, I think the teachers were drill sergeant drop outs, and the only alternative was to torment young teenagers. However, I am quite athletic and could compete physically with my peers in most aspects. The world of sports is full of ignorant muscle heads who put men in general to shame but I still love sports and athletics.
I play on a competitive softball team in the present. We have a website with league & individual stats. We have a team manager, 1st & 3rd base coaches. In Spring, we "invite" select individuals to come to practice & try out for the team. We recruit players. The manager decides which position you will play. If you have a bad game, you get benched. The batting lineup is decided by the manager.
Its fun fun fun!
In 4 years of gym class in high school I never once got even half way up that rope climb thing. Yes I too had a couple visits in the girls locker room never tried on the clothes though but sometimes there was always an extra panty left lying around, and I always wondered who it belonged to....and if she knew she left it there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Katherine
I hated Gym class. I was always the last one chosen when it came time for picking team members. Of course I would have been lousy on any of the girls teams too so it's not really a gender thing. The arts were more my calling.
Debbie "Two Sheds" Kong
I hated gym and was horrible at most sports. Unfortunately i'm a huge person, with huge shoulders, so everyone expected me to be huge jock. I can't hit a tennis ball, baseball, or golf ball to save my life. I think i've done maybe 3 chinups in my whole life. I could catch a ball decently though.
And to make matters worse, my dad was the coach so he threw me into everything he could to make a man out of me. Luckily my younger brother came along to fulfill all my dad's jock dreams.
i had no problem in gym i also played football, basketball, crosscountry, and indoor track. but when my female side wanted to come out and to keep my secret a secret i jioned coed sports that way i can have my cake and eat it too.....:) :)
One thing I've discovered that is helping me get fit, is all the lovely female exercise gear and clobber.
I do recommed doing Yoga and Pilates dressed up as a woman, it really helps to shape up!
Obviously, Atheletic ability or the lack of it has nothing to do with crossdressing. We see both sides of the spectrum represented here.
I suppose the question came up based on the common misconception that "Queer": or "gay" guys ---which most people mistakenly group CDers with, are notorious for not doing well in atheletics and sports. (its one of the reasons that the guy who always strikes out or cant catch a ball is often called a "Fag" by the other kids)----
It apears that some of us CDers still carry some of that mythology and fear of homosexuality with us from early experiences and still might associate some mythological "Gay" attributes to their CD.----Of course its time to get over it. Homosexuality and CD are NOT related at all and even the stuff attributed to homosexuality, eg. poor atheletic ability, wanting to be a woman, etc. is a crock of s**t anyway.
Former Special Forces, Football, Soccer, baseball. Grew up on a farm throwing bails of hay and felling trees.
I never liked gym, for other reasons than CD. I never had a problem with the rope climb or the other stuff. Just really did'nt like sports still dont.
I could go the rest of my life without watching or hearing about sports but in my line of work now a lot of the people I deal with talk about them.
Reading your answers to my questions shows how different we all are. I am 76 years old so I spent my horrible junior high school years (there was no "middle school" then) during World War II, when boys had to be boys. I therefore worked at being a "Boy," and succeeded a bit, but never could develop a masculine body. It got to be so that I could "pass" at sports and being manly, but I always felt inadequate.
Whether that failure to be manly affected my desire to be a girl, I don't know. It is true, however, that my teen years were difficult and my feelings of failure from those years never left me.
Of course, I never heard of crossdressing or transgenders in those years, and considered my dressing desires to be shameful. So I've lived an outwardly male life largely successfully, father of 5, Navy Vet, successful career, etc., but still wish I could have lived it as a woman.
Love to hear from others, about those horrible teen years.
never had to do gym, thank god.being diabetic and asthmatic
kept me out.plus,i throw like a girl!!!
hugs,karen.
I enjoyed P.E., but I didn't like having to undress in front of the others, and going to the shower with a bunch of other guys always left me with mixed emotions. I had my most explosive sexual "experiments" when I was in the 7th grade, so............ I'm not sure how to say this without being direct, but I would often get erections in the shower which were hard to conceal. And being somewhat stupid didn't help any. I had more than one fight after school because of things that happened in the shower.
Hi there
Let's see. The other boys my age could (and still can) kick/throw a ball ten times farther than I can, run faster than I can, take more pain than I can, etc etc etc. In high school, most of the time I actually did piano for my sport. lol
There are some thing I'm good at, though, like alpine skiing. I'm decent at tennis and cross-country skiing.
Hugs,
Lisa
I was always fairly athletic...just small for my size so it was difficult for me to make any of my school's athletic teams because of it. Played a lot of intramural and neighborhood ball however...I had a very male upbringing and social environment...the crossdressing certainly didn't come from any of that.
Not TG, but hate gym and anything that makes me sweat. Honestly, what nonsense!
Kew
I enjoyed gym class. I ran cross country and track in high school and junior college. I played football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, and softball. I wasn't a great athlete but I enjoyed playing for the fun of it. I still love sports, but I love the arts, politics, and other things. I have a wide variety of interests.
Gennee:)
Hated gym and all of the sports type stuff that went along with it. I did well enough in the gymnastics type stuff. I avoided the locker room thing by coming and going early or late.
But when some buffoon whacked me such that I had to go to the doctor in so-called "touch football", I filed an assault complaint. My dad's attorney filed something else that named the school and !#$%^ gym teacher, but I forgot what it was. Anyway, that fixed that.:D
Warm regards,
Christina Nicole
I loved and hated gym class. In gym class, I got to experience my love for swimming, and my hate for it after getting on the swim team. I like swimming, when its own my own, not designed as a series of endless drills and laps. Wished that I couldve worn one of the one pieces that the girls got to wear!
I never had a problem with gym class except for a few of the activities. I hated...hated...hated wrestling and I didn't like playing softball. I loved playing floor hockey and volleyball. I was never really athletic in school but I keep in shape now. Now that I think about it, I prefered the things that the girls did in gym class (when we were split up). The boys would mostly play softball and one of my buddies and I did the indoor tennis. Plus I got to look at the cuties in my class.
Believe it or not there were two kids in our gym class that could out do everyone else for chins and push ups.....and I was one of those two people!
I have always had (and still do) a good stength to weight ratio.
I was always good at gym class and it was my favorite class. I also was on the 6th, 7th, & 8th grade basketball team and I played Little League Baseball. I got into BMX Freestyle during H.S. I was quite a dude until I became a crossdressor late in college.
Crossdressing just ruined my dude - ness.
During the past two years I tried criterium racing on a road bike but I'm not fast enough. So now I just bike to maintain my weight and size 4 -6 size and for transportation.
I have a mild remembrance of gym/health classes throughout school. Never excelled in anything but ping pong but managed to letter in golf my junior year; the most notable time being when I short circuited a series of rooms after two exposed wires together in 9th grade.
Being tall and flexible, certain aspects of sports came easy. I'd never given it much thought or consideration til now but all in all i'd have to say gym was alright.
Except when dennis dingle threatened to burn me and various other people with his lighter & aeresol can shows, but hey, he was just playing. There was this other black kid who used 'secret' deodorant since he was right in saying it's strong enough for a man. hehe
Hi
I was a defensive end for my high school football team and actually I was pretty good at it by the way.
Yours,
Zara
All I really wanted was a netball skirt, kneesocks and gym knickers like the the other girls wore. (am I asking oh for so much ?)
Love Angela XX
Went to a small high school, played football, Offensive tackle, defensive tackle, defensive end, linebacker, track, basketball Was ruthless, horrible, un-merciable! Just plain MEAN! Trying to prove, earn and validate my masculinity.
Always was getting expelled for fighting in school.
Retired military, (Marines) nine years at Parris Island
Thank God those days are all over!
Not someone you would want to bully ~ even if I am dressed and being :doll:
Likewise Not TG, but I hate gym as it was a great place to the bullies to do their thing normally with the support by the Gymn Teacher.
However did enjoy after schooool Gymn Club as this was gymnastics with the girls.
Being honest the Gymn Teachers were rubbish when I went into the Army found that despite years of being told I was rubbish I was quite a good runner. If the Army could find it in people why couldn't they. Best time for a mile was 4 mins 35 seconds
Gym Classes (Known as P.E. to us in the UK at the time)... I was a failure because, although I could do chin up's, and press up's and weights (Amazingly well), and rope climbs and jumps and all that other stuff... I LOATHE football (Soccer), and I dont enjoy long distance running so I was just drummed out of the classes with a gentle mixture of bullying and staff ignorance.
In the end... All my energy became focussed on messing about, and getting excluded, suspended and then expelled. (worth it inn the long run, it got me sent away to boarding school, and freedom from my parents !!)
I have to admit, I once (yeah 'really' only once ?? HAA ha ha ha) tried on my sisters gym kit.... Yeah, Dont take me there ! I LOVED IT :p !!!!
XX
Jayme
Ps... My best time for a mile was about three quaters of an hour.
I played Baseball and Basketball in High School as well as being a Band Geek.
In grade school I was alittle chubby and terrible at sports. I was always picked last to be on a team. In fact, I was made fun of for having 'boobs.'
Later in high school, I lifted weights lost weight and played football. One year I was voted most valuable player. I kept lifting weights and wanted to be a bodybuilder. I wanted to be huge and strong so people would fear me. It was all a cover and repression for my need to be girl. I was the youngest of 3 boys in our family. My older brothers and father were so macho. I hated it. My mother so wanted a girl.
I guess sports helped my fitness level, I still try and exercise for health reasons. And my kids have played sports in school. But I would have rather been a girl on the highschool volleyball team than a boy on the football team.
I was highly successful at all sports at school - captained most of my school teams, represented the school at district and county level and at one time, was predicted to go on to play rugby union at a national level. When I wasn't being stereotypically male, I liked nothing better than donning some lingerie and revelling in my femininity. And I wonder why I found my teen years confusing?! :)
I was pretty much a failure in gym class, though I could hold my own running and swimming, and I have often jogged or biked to keep fit (gotta keep that girlish figure). I weighed about 125 pounds soaking wet when I was a senior in high school, plus I topped out at about 5'6" -- which was an absolute boon to my crossdressing, which I had carried on with my mother's help and support from the time I was in 7th grade. Gym class was always an embarrassment for me and I almost always wore sweats because my legs were mostly hairless, and then I started shaving them on a regular basis because I was dressing quite often at home (I was so glad to find out that cyclists and swimmers shave their bodies for competition!!).
I was usually the butt of jokes in junior high because I was puny, short, small and nerdy... by the time I was in high school, I had shoulder-length hair and kind of leaned toward the metalhead/rock star look... but the long hair and small stature worked perfectly for my hobby, which was crossdressing any chance I got at home!
I hated gym. I'm not into organizied sports. I was a cross country runner (but a poor one), but even now could care less about baseball, football, or basketball. I'm active and love to swim, shoot and hike.
I was always the littlest kid in class but I did alright at gym. In high school everyone had become stoners so it didn't matter much the whole gym class was all smoked up.
I did like running around in the short shorts :cheeky:
Yes I was a failure in gym class mainly because I didn't get along with the teacher.He was the football coach too and thought he was some kind of bad ass.I never enjoyed team sports much either. I'd love to see that teacher/coach go through Ranger school,that will shut him up.
Not tg....
In Texas if you joined an extracuricular activity like band/chorus/cheerleading/or registered in a sport you did not have to do PE or gym class. So the last time I had to go to something that resembeled gym was like 4th grade. I was not fond of having to change in front of the other girls. I just really felt weird about being naked around others.
So joined band and then in jr. high school joined tennis and I never had to set foot in a PE class again! yea~
And I still play tennis and it is a huge part of my life even now!
:thumbsup:
I hated P.E. class, I went to a rural school and since there was only 10 boys in the 7th and 8th grades, you were automatically on the basketball team in the winter and in the spring it was automatically on the track team. When I went into the 9th(at a different school) grade I had the P.E. coach from hell, he thought that the only way to make a boy into a "MAN" was to treat them like you were in the military at a boot camp. After that 10th, 11th and 12th grade was not much better.
I never really could do the gymnastic part of gym class meaning I did ok with softball, soccer, basketball and team type sports, but all the rope climbing and that stuff I could not do. The part that was really tough on me was that showers were always manditory and I had developed pretty large breasts and had an extremely small penis basically I looked like a girl when naked. It was very humiliating back then I was always stared at and made fun of. The junior high years were the worst. But now I am very happy to be small it is very convieient when dressing ,I don't have to tuck at all , I am very smooth in all my outfits. But back then preteen boys were vicious.
Since I started school early, Iwas almost a year younger than most of my peers. Throughout most of my education, I hated gym class, since I was a year behind in physical maturity. Sometime in tenth or eleventh grade, I realized I wasn't necessarily smaller anymore, and my confidence grew overnight. I also started playing hockey at that time, and that definitely helped.
As a young adult, I became a serious weightlifter, and that is something I continue to do today in my mid 40s. Although I'll never be confused with a bodybuilder, I'm still a decent-sized guy, and most who know me think I'm kind of a jock.
Looking back in good ol' hindsight, I now know that if I'd just had some confidence, I would have done better in gym class. You don't always have to be the strongest or fastest. That's what I always try to instill in my kids.
I was always good at sports. Football, soccer, baseball, boxing, tennis, etc... Never liked basketball though.
NO, I was not a failure. I was a three sport athlete in HS (football, bastketball and track). I lettered 4 years in track in college.
Jodi
Gym class was alright, but I seemed to lack a little arm strength. I did play football, but more as punter and wide receiver. Played some basket ball, but only till the second year in high school, even though I was 6'4". I did play golf though and was a 4 year letterman in golf, but I could do that even as a woman. Maybe they would let me play from the ladies tees.:)
Secretly, I always wanted to be one of the cheerleaders. ;)
Gym Class was awful, I am not the least bit athletic. I only went because I had too.
I'd skip gym. I hated it so much! I was never very athletic, and when I was in gym I felt like I was more making a fool of myself. I also HATED showering in the open showers.
i did just fine in school gym class wasnt always picked first for teams ......but was always right up there
I hated PE and Games!!!!:mad: On those days I had to wear the hated Boys' Y Fronts instead of a lovely pair of my big sister Anne's knickers as I secretly wore every other time under my trousers. In the changing rooms, (locker room) for the Boys to get changed for PE or Games there were no separate cubicles with curtains as the Girls had so no privacy and in those days the mid 1960s Boys' underpants looked very different to Girls' unlike the Unisex "slip" briefs worn by many Boys and Men today. I had to wear a pair of Y-Fronts which I hated then after the PE lesson go to the Boys' Toilets and using a cubicle (stall) with a locked door change back into the pair of Anne's knickers I had in my jacket pocket. When I got the chance to take extra subjects instead of PE when I was 15 I jumped at this and never again wore Male Underpants to this day.
Ironically, if I had I been able to do PE with the GIRLS wearing navy blue
knickers and a short pleated Gym Skirt like them to play (Field) Hockey or Netball I would have been delighted!
I was no good at PE. I am NOT competitive in the slightest and am not into any team activities, so games such as Football, (Soccer), Rugby, Cricket etc leave me totally cold and I just wasn't interested in this subject! I was I am glad to say never chosen for any of the Teams and during Sports was left to do exercises in the GYM or in good weather run round the pitch. The PE Teacher was quite happy when I and some of the more bookish lads in our year took extra subjects and were no longer his problem. I have never done a push up nor a chin up in my life and wouldn't know how to, not that I would want to and like others I don't like "sweaty" activities!
I must say, I was astounded at the response my question raised. Obviously, i have been haunted all my 76 years by those horrid days in gym, when my soft, girly body had to be exposed in the locker rooms and showers and when I tried pathetically to use my slender unmuscular arms to pull me up on the chinning bar. I see that so many of the girls, however, were very good athletes, but still were girls at heart ... or at least desired to dress like one.
A pox upon all the macho gym teachers who haunted us girly boys.