Just noticing gender roles...

[Donnie B.]

Has anyone else noticed more and more restrictive gender stereotypes and roles appearing in your home environment since you've started transitioning?

I mean, when I just self-identified as a lesbian, I thought that people just shrugged their shoulders and allowed me to wear whatever I want. Now that I identify as a FTM Transsexual (still in the closet for the most part),  I've noticed more and more that my family especially have started to force on me to wear dresses at things like dances and such. I now am having it ingrained into my head that gender and sex are the same thing, and that it's fine being a "masculine woman" by even the most open-minded of my family members.

...which hurts, because I'm pretty sure I'm not a woman, I'm a man.

I dunno if this makes any sense, but it's kind of like I've taken the blinders off fully. I noticed gender role behavior before, but I figured my life was pretty neutral when it came to gender roles. Turns out I was wrong.

So, has anyone else noticed this within their own families?

[Elsa]

yes ... I did notice this when I came out to my mom and when my dad begun to suspect what was happening when I started going for counseling...