I looked and often acted like a boy and I know that had I been offered the chance to become a real one at the age of ten and given hormones I would have leaped at the chance
Her childhood photos do show her looking androgynous, but look at how she turned out:
She offers an interesting explanation for the transformation. She believed as a girl that boys had it better and so identified that way, but when puberty kicked in and she realised the power that girls had, she embraced femininity. In her case, what mattered was a positive appraisal of what it meant to be a woman.
Ah, go 'way, Mark, stop pulling our legs. That's definitely a man.
ReplyDeleteWell, could be a woman Michael, you never know!
DeleteHaha, there's not much doubt about that!
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