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What really scares me as a 20 year old is the idea that kids in middle school and even elementary school are being exposed to the trans ideas of self identification and WOW if I had seen that when I was 12 or 13, I know for a fact I would’ve been fully transitioned by now. (1/7)
No doubt I would’ve begged my parents for puberty blockers if I had known about them. Puberty was hell and it felt like I was being punished by a higher power. I tried to commit suicide 3 times from age 12-13. I was put on medication after medication. (2/7)
I was desperately trying to figure out what was wrong with me. On top of that, I was jealous of my male friends. I remember hating my period with a burning passion and wishing I had a dick because I wanted to know what it felt like to get a boner, and pee standing up. (3/7)
If someone had presented the idea of me being a boy trapped in a girl’s body, there’s NO doubt in my mind that I would have instantly taken that on. I would have no memory of being a teenage girl. I wouldn’t be able to understand how it feels to grow up as a woman. (4/7)
I look back on my early teenage years with fondness now. But I went through a lot of shit. I was stupid, reckless. I took my body for granted. I self-harmed. I had an eating disorder. I hated myself because of who I was. If I could’ve been something else, I would have. (5/7)
But I’m NOT. I’m ME. I’ll always be me, I’ve always been me. We can’t opt out of all the things we had to go through to get to our adult selves. So why are we letting middle school kids opt out of puberty? Puberty is the start of figuring out who you are, who you will be. (6/7)
If the idea that I could be a boy had been planted in my mind sooner, everything else in my transition being the same, I don’t know if I would have had the strength to realize I was wrong. And that scares the shit out of me. I hope this next generation turns out okay. (7/7)
