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What do these femme boys look like in their 30s or 40s and beyond. How would you feel when age catches up, you start balding and hair starts sprouting out of every pore and you don't look so femme any more, but an aging rocker? Not even Dorian Gray is Peter Pan. I'd probably start looking like my dad by now. Puke. :laugh:
Balding and body hair never applied to me either as I started HRT before that could happen. Ok, disregarding looks. I've always pondered a similar question as to whether I could survive as a femme boy. But, it didn't satisfy my inner self. I simply wasn't a femme boy, as I always believed I was a girl.
Actually, I was jealous of anyone who was happy with themselves, regardless. I have a lot of respect for those that blur the boundaries. They, perhaps, were stronger than I could ever be. I think a lot is down to how we internalise social pressures.
just remember, these characters are written to be liked.
I think the best example of a straight femme boy is glam/punk rocker Michael Monroe.
"Femme boy" appears to me to be a transient state. They always invariably grow up and become men: no longer femme, no longer boy. Womanhood has a little more longevity to it.
I guess if you asked people they would call me a femme boy or if you asked my ex a woman with a penis. But I'm transitioning so I don't really fall into what you're talking about it. And I've hard a very hard time of it and when I was 19 I remember sitting on my porch crying wondering how I would ever be able to transition and be happy for once. Plus, people misgender me all the time in boy-mode and don't realize they are doing it. Not clerks or cashiers. People who have interaction with me start referring to me as her or say stuff like the other girl. Even my ex did it, she used to say "if i didn't have a girlfriend" all the time. Don't know if this helps but you're not alone. I also don't have gender dysphoria. I really don't know what it means. I do have horrible body dysphoria though to the point I think I'm hideous. I'm not sure if femme boys really exist in true form that isn't an act. I think they are prob most always trans IMO. I could be wrong.
Like Joanna, I was one.. But I'm also transitioning so I don't think it counts.
I have met femme boys, including one recently.. He was girlier than I am, but is most definitely a boy.