The Transitive Property: Reflections on a Transgender Childhood
Monday, May 9th, 2011 | By Cristopher Bautista
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/05/09/the-transitive-property-reflections-on-a-transgender-childhood/But after some more reflection, I didn't just read because I loved it. I never met anyone transgender until I reached college, so when I was younger, I desperately looked for somebody like me in the books I read, the movies and TV shows I watched. I was always interested in narratives where girls disguised themselves as boys and ran away to find adventure, about girls who wanted to be princes and knights, about girls who didn't quite fit into pink and dresses, about girls who were too restless to wait around for the boy to save them so they took matters into their own hands. And I guess one good thing about being born female meant that I could feed into my obsession of Disney princess movies without shame — my parents thought that I identified with the female main characters, but in reality, my two-year-old self (and I admit, still my 22-year-old self) wanted to be the prince that saves the hot princess and lives happily ever after with her. I didn't know quite how to articulate it at the time, but that's what I believed, deep down.
