I loved Hockey but my mom wouldn't let me join because it was too dangerous and she didn't want to sit in a cold arena (I begged for years and years growing up... I remember we had free skate with school and I was the only one at the end who would race with the guys, though all 'girls' were supposed to get off the ice!).
Instead I was forced into dance lessons, which eventually my mom had to pull me out of because I was driving the teacher insane by not listening and doing whatever the hell I wanted. I joined Karate but quit because it wasn't strict enough and I was there to learn, not to play stupid games with other kids. I joined girl guides since I wasn't allowed in boy scouts and my friends were in guides but I hated it. I mean I love camping and that's the only reason I joined, I loved being out doors and my parents didn't do that kind of stuff with me anymore. I quit because I didn't join for cleaning/cooking lessons... it was boring, we spent more time in a gym singing songs than outside. They did however teach us a song about sleeping naked once, ->-bleeped-<-ing weird ->-bleeped-<-, and it was funny, but I tried to sing it in public with them once and got in trouble because it was inappropriate... then don't teach songs about sleeping NAKED!
I was in army cadets when I was 14, I loved the uniforms, but it wasn't strict enough for me, and they were very sexist (I was treated like a girl which was so Obviously different than how boys were treated), there very few girls there but the ones who were in it, were like 12 year old girls who only wanted to talk about sucking dick. I'm not even sure why they were there since all they talked about was boys. I kept wishing I was in the basement with the guys playing table tennis... rather than listening to endless conversations about Johnny Depp.
I tried joining sports teams in schools, but was constantly yelled at for being too rough, and I could take someone down who was twice my size. In fact there was a bully at my elementary school and I was one of the few people he'd never touch, not because I was 'female' but because I was too tough and he couldn't intimidate me. I grew up with an older sister who was no different than an older brother, I knew how to take someone like him on, lol and he was probably 150lbs, and I was 70lbs at the time. I was good at sports, amazing at scoring baskets in basketball, but couldn't play nice enough with other girls. I bet if I had been allowed on the guys team they wouldn't have cared. But since I had to play with girls, it was like trying to dance around porcelain dolls, afraid to hit them because the teachers thought they would break and the girls would cry about a broken nail or a damaged hair. I'm not saying all girls were like that, but most of them were, I remember we had to go outside once when it was raining and all the girls were whining about their hair and I was already on my feet ready to make my time in the mud last as long as it possibly could.
Being on the girls side sucked, I had to watch in envy the boys sports team and gym class. I missed out on a lot of the things I would have loved to have done.
I also missed out on any real relationship with my dad. He got along better with my sister because she's the oldest and he's the oldest in his family, so they understand each other. Me on the other hand, he never wanted me. In fact he said it many times he never wanted kids at all, and he got me, not a boy, more disappointment. So even though he tried taking me to bike shows which I seriously LOVED (he'd choose my sister over me if she said she wanted to go) but he never actually taught me about the bikes. He never taught me about Hockey and hated when I watched with him. We no longer have any relationship at all, but I feel if I was born male, we probably would have bonded, that and if he wasn't an abusive ->-bleeped-<-.
