Hesitate to use those words (me too) but they certainly apply. Like the two of you, I was not a typical boy -- all kinds of sissyish interests and far too "pretty" for my own good. It never occurred to me, though, to think of myself as a girl -- or to wish to be one. But I wonder if I were growing up today whether that would be true. It is one of the things that makes me profoundly uneasy about this whole business -- that boys who are not typical boys (or girls who are not typical girls) -- reach out for something to explain why they aren't typical and end up concluding they must be the "wrong" gender - instead of just comfortably settling into sissydom or tomboydom as the case may be. SR |