I Want My Girlhood Back
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Drew Cordes
February 1, 2011 3:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2011/02/give_me_back_my_girlhood.php


In the years I've identified as transgender, I've encountered many of the drawbacks and advantages that I assume many other trans people also face. There are a few benefits I really like (no menstruation!) and some other aspects that are more inconvenient (multiple five-figure surgeries).

Some of these problems will get better in time. My next surgery will be my last; the medical community is becoming more and more familiar with treating trans people; the march toward social tolerance keeps trudging forward. There's one issue that sticks with me, though, that I'm not sure will ever change: being transgender robbed me of my girlhood.

This sounds like she is regretting her childhood, rather than her adulthood. She wants a re-run of being a child, so she can do it differently.

Like just about everyone else really.