Now I come to think about it, I was considered pretty weird at school when I refused to use the urinals and have always sat down, so I don't even know what it's like to stand to pee. The boys used to tease me for this, and sometimes they'd stare over the top of the cubicle at me asking why I sat to pee. From Year 1 I was called girly boy and the boys completely and utterly rejected me, not that I really cared because I didn't regard myself as a boy anyway and only socialised with the girls, who were always more genuine.
I also used to use the girls loos at school, according to my parents, back in 1990 when I started school, and had to be told not to and pressure was put on my parents to 'educate' me also. It was a Catholic primary school and at time I was just seen as disobedient I guess. Even telling my parents that I was a girl at the age of 4 and repeating it year after year, even to my doctor failed to get any kind of sympathy. Nobody prescribed me hormone blockers, they just told me to grow up. I just wish that I'd been born say in 2000, rather than 1985 and in a country where gender dysphoria is better understood and catered for. Caitx
