Hey All,

I just remembered as a kid I had read somewhere/saw on TV/was told by someone - I don't honestly remember how the idea got into my head... that if we wished for something at midnight on Christmas - it would come true.

I remember after hearing this story I would sit up all night once everyone had gone to sleep and wish and pray like mad that I would become a girl in the morning.
The next day I would wake up hoping I was a girl but sadly it never worked.
I spent every year I had growing up as a kid wishing the exact same thing... I even became so desperate I started wishing for it at Easter!!!
of course I lived in a strict house so I never told anyone - for fear of being beaten or worse simply dismissed as a phase.

Then there were times I kinda hoped and wondered if I tried hard enough it would fall off. Am not going to go there but lets just say it didn't work either.
And there were stories about magic and fairy tales - even a cartoon where one episode had this bird that was a girl cursed to a body of a bird - and I realized at that time what that girl was going through and felt exactly the same way.

Anyways am I the only one who had similar childhood stories growing up? what are your memories as a kid with dealing with being given the wrong gender?

I used to wish or pray or anything else that I could since about 5 y/o  that I'll wake up the next day as the girl I felt I should have been born.

Now I wish or pray or anything else that I can think of what the right path for me to take is

It wasn't until about age 10 when I realized there were anatomical differences between boys and girls that I began wishing (starlight, star bright -- in a foggy town like South San Francisco -- yeah, right) that I could be a girl. Around puberty, I began to wish that I'd get some strange disease where the only life-saving cure would have been a "sex change."

Quote from: JoanneB on September 29, 2012, 02:18:10 PM
I used to wish or pray or anything else that I could since about 5 y/o  that I'll wake up the next day as the girl I felt I should have been born.

Now I wish or pray or anything else that I can think of what the right path for me to take is

I really hope that one that I would be able to do the same. 

Quote from: Connie Anne on September 29, 2012, 02:24:12 PM
It wasn't until about age 10 when I realized there were anatomical differences between boys and girls that I began wishing (starlight, star bright -- in a foggy town like South San Francisco -- yeah, right) that I could be a girl. Around puberty, I began to wish that I'd get some strange disease where the only life-saving cure would have been a "sex change."

That sooo true - I remember we had this mandatory sex education class in school that was to teach kids about the birds and the bees before they do something stupid.
that's when I was devastated emotionally about it when I kept looking at how a woman would develop and wishing that was me! and I really started to hate my body then and I guess that's when it hit me that the damn thing is not going to fall off - so I'd wish that I'd get into some "accident" where it has to be removed.

I use to have dreams about a mad scientist abduct me and switch my brain with a girl and the other was that they would switch body parts. (I think I watched too much bad Vincent Price horror movies as a kid)

Quote from: Alexia6 on September 29, 2012, 01:55:11 PM
Anyways am I the only one who had similar childhood stories growing up? what are your memories as a kid with dealing with being given the wrong gender?

OK, a couple:

1. I meet a transgender FtM witch who casts a spell on us so that we switch bodies.

2. I die and go to heaven where I get a choice of going back as whatever I want and I choose to be female.

Quote from: agfrommd on September 29, 2012, 07:11:18 PM

OK, a couple:

1. I meet a transgender FtM witch who casts a spell on us so that we switch bodies.

Though wouldn't it be a transgender FtM warlock or wizard??

--Jay J

Yep, every birthday since I can remember that was my wish when I blew out the candles. As a small child (around 4-5) I would pray before I went to bed to wake up a girl. I remember this silly thing "If you kiss your own elbow it will change your sex." someone said, I would try for hours to do this. Finally I realized I was just screwed.

Same here, looootsa wishing. I'd pray desperately every night to just be a girl. In the morning I'd wake to get ready for school and spend as long as possible without looking at myself. Yea, it never worked in case you're wondering.

Every single birthday wish was the same, and I took advantage of the rule to never tell anyone my wish otherwise it wouldn't come true...yep so I wished long and hard. 

In a sense I am making my wish come true though, it's just taking a little longer that I'd hoped. Matter over mind!

I'm with JoanneB on this one...and it wasn't just a Christmas thing either! However, it WOULD have been an awesome gift to have woken up on a Christmas morning with all of the girl parts.

I remember those Jr. High school days where they would send the boys to one classroom and the girls to another to teach us about our changing bodies...it was all I could do to not blurt out "but but, I belong in the girls room" all I ended up learning in that era was how to be male enough to get along with others and not direct attention towards myself which for sure would end up being ridicule, teasing, and pure hell...so I just kept wishing every christmas and bday the best I could.

Much better now that I can be "me" in 3D even if it is on a limited basis for now