That Trans Thread

[Charlie Boy]

I was considered, and called, a tomboy when I was a kid.

Is that an issue?  Seems to me that others were assigning my gender traits because of the things I did...like fish, play baseball with the neighbor kids, etc.

At no point was my biology questioned but my actions were definitely defined by others based on a set of "rules".

Oh dear, he dreaded tomboy label. I wonder—was the offense truly in the labeling, or in the retrospective interpretation of it?

After all, the term tomboy never denied biology; quite the opposite—it acknowledged a girl acting outside expected norms without claiming she wasn’t a girl. Contrast that with today’s curious fashion of insisting that certain behaviors must mean something about one’s identity, or even one’s sex.

Ironically, the very “rules” you found restrictive are now enforced with far greater zeal by ideologues who believe a preference for trucks over tiaras indicates an ontological mismatch. One might ask: is the modern view truly more liberating—or simply more dogmatic in different clothing?

Of course, I welcome your thoughts—assuming they haven’t been pre-approved by the Gender Compliance Committee.