MTF with a lot of "male" hobbies?

[Trixie]

I... FEEL feminine, and like some feminine things but that doesn't change the other things I like, and what I'm interested in. I like motor racing, guns, aviation, space ships, science... boy things. 

I can't help but feel that my interests... somehow invalidate my feminity. Like, if I'm going to identify as trans, I shouldn't enjoy those things. People won't take my gender identity seriously either I feel, knowing how I am and what I like.

[Cyndigurl45]

Hmmmm, I like those things also and I'm a girl. I wonder how would:

Danica Patrick, Julie Golob, Sally Ride or Dorothy Hodgkin

feel about that statement boy things?

[Michelle G]

A lot of hobbies that were once seen as "male" are now sort of "gender neutral"

I have been around aircraft and motorcycles my whole life, I have seen many many girls and women succeed in both those fields! I also like shooting and have a range on my property, both my daughters were raised to shoot and to respect/enjoy firearms

Some of the best aerobatic pilots...such as patty Wagstaff and others are at the top of what some ppl think as a mans game...My flight instructor friend Charlotte is such a good pilot she now flies high level corporate jets.

a lot of females just dont sit at home cooking pot roast for their family anymore, this is not the fifty's!   Its our world now! and the public is getting used to seeing women in sports, male dominated fields and hobbies, politics...etc.

enjoy!!!

[peky]

I race dirt bikes, shoot big guns, do martial arts, fix cars and appliances, climb rocks and trees, innovates and invents, cook a storm, mend cuts and scraps and medicates, ironsout (not just shirts), gives hair cuts and make ups, cleans and disinfects, provides educational, psychological, physical advice, lends money, gives hugs and kisses, helps with homeworks, shops for unmentionables, likes singing and dancing, do comedy, prays often, cheer leads, works two jobs, all of that with a smile in my face..

I smell like a rose and I do not snore....I am wonder woman

[eli77]

I'm a girl, so everything I do is a "girl thing."

[SourCandy]

I think I would still be into every thing I am now if my sex was female, just that I wouldn't have had as many hobbies I never allowed myself to get into because of my crippling fear of being discovered when I was younger.

I was thinking about this very thing a few hours ago while jumping on my trampoline, I don't want to change who I am, I want to become who I am. x3 So take pride in what society has conditioned you to believe are "boy" hobbies, because plenty of girls have them too.

[Sephirah]

Louise Cook. Rally car driver.

Her site.

'Nuff said.

Be you. Whoever that is.

[Kelly-087]

i enjoy some male things like playing video games.

I absolutely love sci-fi. As you can see by my name.

Though I never had an interest in guy stuff, I do enjoy a fast car. And making it go fast.

[Sephirah]

i enjoy some male things like playing video games.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp

• The average gamer is 37 years old and has been playing for 12 years.


• Eighty-two percent of gamers are 18 years of age or older.


• Forty-two percent of all players are women and women over 18 years of age are one of the industry's fastest growing demographics.


• Today, adult women represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (37 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (13 percent)

Not really what I'd call an entirely male pursuit.

[MiaOhMya!]

I'm a pilot too, can race cars in my sleep (been driving since I was 8 as did my sisters), I am a crack shot in video games... and I can fix pracically anything...

I completely agree that the reason women don't do certain things is not because they can't, but society pressures and steers them toward other things.

Its very frustrating too, for example now when I go into the auto parts store I'm automatically treated as an idiot...even though I know as much or more than the clerk! That treatment is an easy out for lots of girls to just not try or care.

There's no reason a man can't be a master makeup artist any more than a woman can't be a master mechanic. I say keep your male-sounding hobbies and just proudly have a little tomboy in ya!!

[Michelle G]

Yep...I taught my two daughters a lot about cars, mechanics, aircraft and all sorts of things they will need to know so they wont have to depend on a "man" to do it for them

they are 29 and 30yo, very very pretty and have made more than one auto parts guy or hardware clerk feel like a total heel for miss judging and trying to mislead them, lol

neither of them do "traditional" girl hobbies at all, and they aren't really "tomboyish" either...(nuthin at all wrong with that though;) ) I'm quite proud of them for being so versatile

[MiaOhMya!]

They are 29 and 30yo, very very pretty and have made more than one auto parts guy or hardware clerk feel like a total heel for miss judging and trying to mislead the...,  I'm quite proud of them for being so versatile

I must say I am proud that you raised your daughters not to be helpless damsels in distress. Gosh that gets old! And I LOVE the bit about the clerks misleading them haha suckers I'd love to see their faces when they realise your kids aren't dummies!!

[lilacwoman]

transphobic lesbians pull the 'you like guy stuff so you are just a pervy CD/TV' about TS who like cars and guns but these transphobes can't or won't understand that having to live male in youth does expose a person to stereotype pastimes and interests.

the same transphobes perhaps never look on youtube to see the many GGs who are very knowledgeable about cars, guns, planes, science etc...and as for all the GG army/navy/airforce GGs? Maybe the transphobes just write those GGs off as being mentally ill women?

[Michelle G]

I must say I am proud that you raised your daughters not to be helpless damsels in distress. Gosh that gets old! And I LOVE the bit about the clerks misleading them haha suckers I'd love to see their faces when they realise your kids aren't dummies!!

Those two are so proud of that!! they always tell me when that happens...it always makes them so happy to be able to shut down those narrow minded guys flat in their tracks, lol

something to think about...of course when I was young my father, uncle and grandfather would teach me "guy stuff" but they also included my sis who is only two years younger, she learned "guy stuff" as well and I guess thats why her and and I are so close...as kids we would play with dolls in the morning and trucks on the dirt pile all afternoon...when the folks were gone she would dress me up in her cute things just for kicks using me to see how stuff looks on "her"...all these years later I havent come out to her yet,,,someday though I will.

[ffern]

... motor racing, guns, aviation, space ships, science...

that pretty much describes one of my exs likes, whos doing a degree in aeronautics or somthing, and another of my friends plays video games, collects transfomer models and is starting learing D&D (both GG, if that wasnt implied heavily enough). 

[insert something about stereotypes usually being wrong here]

[pretty]

IMO... it's normal for a girl to have a few masculine interests but mostly feminine interests, and the opposite for a guy.

Just because a girl is a race car driver doesn't mean she also ignores her fashion and appearance, dates women and does wood carving or something.

Usually cis females with mostly masculine interests are not strongly female identified, in my experience. You occasionally see girls who say "no I don't like girl things at all, I never did" and usually they end that paragraph with "I don't really feel like a woman or understand other women."

And I'm NOT trying to argue here. I don't wanna do that. I just don't understand why people are trying to morph masculine hobbies into feminine ones because it suits them to do that. Just because 1 cis girl somewhere in the world happens to like a hobby doesn't suddenly make it a not masculine hobby. There actually is such a thing as masculine and feminine hobbies. 

[Ayden]

I'm a dude and I like knitting, baking, and adorable animals. I spent my internet time looking at pictures of kittens and squeal in a completely manly fashion. I feel no doubt that I am a guy. My tiny adorable grandmother loves her guns and NASCAR. Gendering hobbies and interests is silly. If you like something, awesome. I say, don't worry about it.

[Jamie D]

I'm a girl, so everything I do is a "girl thing."

It's your 'thang'
do whatcha wanna do

[Nicolette]

I'm a dude and I like knitting, baking, and adorable animals. I spent my internet time looking at pictures of kittens and squeal in a completely manly fashion. I feel no doubt that I am a guy. My tiny adorable grandmother loves her guns and NASCAR. Gendering hobbies and interests is silly. If you like something, awesome. I say, don't worry about it.

+1

The brainwashing starts before we're even conscious. I forgot to add I sometimes trawl youtube to watch cute kittens and animals, and cry watching chick flicks. Maybe, I am a woman after all. Phew.

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

I... FEEL feminine, and like some feminine things but that doesn't change the other things I like, and what I'm interested in. I like motor racing, guns, aviation, space ships, science... boy things. 

I can't help but feel that my interests... somehow invalidate my feminity. Like, if I'm going to identify as trans, I shouldn't enjoy those things. People won't take my gender identity seriously either I feel, knowing how I am and what I like.

it doesn't make you less female or transgender for that matter. i consider myself very feminine, but i never wear dresses, i play video games, and i'm not all talkative like people say a woman "should be," and i still wear the same white nike sneakers since i have big feet and it's just a pain to find women's shoes that will fit. oh well, i'm not gonna change who i am just to fit some arbitrary mold.  i don't need to score 100% on some gendered litmus test to be who i already know i am.