Buck, I admire you no end, and this new Substack is a gift to us all. You are quite a person, and as your same-age contemporary I can certainly relate to how good we had it in the 1970s! We were more innocent, perhaps, but we were far freer. I miss those years all the time.
I also grew up to be a female heterosexual whereas as a kid I wished to be a boy and dressed up like a boy. I didn’t have a boy name but I remember really wishing to be male and one of the reason being that I perceived the boys to have more freedom than the girls. They got away with certain behaviour that we didn’t and more was expected from me as a girl than from my brother.
It’s nuts that people are rushing their kids to transition. I think it’s crazier even that parents are allowing strangers - weather or not they call themselves therapists - convince them to fund irreversible procedures. It’s even worse that qualified doctors will go on record and lie about these procedures being reversible. We’re living a collective psychotic episode which hopefully will end soon.
Wow. This post brought back a lot of memories. I grew up in the 70's. You totally look like a pinky pink girly girl compared to what I looked like. (I'd upload a photo around that age if I saw a way to do it.)
I vehemently wished I was a boy when I was young.....but I wasn't trans. Or gay....or anything I guess. I just wanted to be a boy. My Mom told me if I could kiss my elbow I'd turn into a boy. I tried. It didn't work out well for me. I grew up to be a totally normal straight female.
I am also a totally normal straight female who doesn't quite understand why the world questions a totally normal trans man or woman. Or a totally normal gay person.. or a totally normal any kind of human being. I've followed you for years Buck, just to make sure you had support in numbers, and to try and understand how to help others just see humans as humans. We are all what we are.
Great post Buck. x
Buck, I admire you no end, and this new Substack is a gift to us all. You are quite a person, and as your same-age contemporary I can certainly relate to how good we had it in the 1970s! We were more innocent, perhaps, but we were far freer. I miss those years all the time.
I also grew up to be a female heterosexual whereas as a kid I wished to be a boy and dressed up like a boy. I didn’t have a boy name but I remember really wishing to be male and one of the reason being that I perceived the boys to have more freedom than the girls. They got away with certain behaviour that we didn’t and more was expected from me as a girl than from my brother.
It’s nuts that people are rushing their kids to transition. I think it’s crazier even that parents are allowing strangers - weather or not they call themselves therapists - convince them to fund irreversible procedures. It’s even worse that qualified doctors will go on record and lie about these procedures being reversible. We’re living a collective psychotic episode which hopefully will end soon.
Wow. This post brought back a lot of memories. I grew up in the 70's. You totally look like a pinky pink girly girl compared to what I looked like. (I'd upload a photo around that age if I saw a way to do it.)
I vehemently wished I was a boy when I was young.....but I wasn't trans. Or gay....or anything I guess. I just wanted to be a boy. My Mom told me if I could kiss my elbow I'd turn into a boy. I tried. It didn't work out well for me. I grew up to be a totally normal straight female.
I am also a totally normal straight female who doesn't quite understand why the world questions a totally normal trans man or woman. Or a totally normal gay person.. or a totally normal any kind of human being. I've followed you for years Buck, just to make sure you had support in numbers, and to try and understand how to help others just see humans as humans. We are all what we are.
I’m excited to see what you have to say on this platform that enables more long-form writing! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Enjoy reading about your experience growing up. Horrible what they are doing to kids now.