I am interested in how many have or are into cross-gender toys. I myself live with someone with a very large collection of Barbie dolls. I like being around them now. I had played with a few as a child. Now seeing the beautiful expensive collectors ones, I like them also. I also have a pink furry feminine pig (cute).

We even have small barbie room layouts with miniature stuff in.

Also interested if F-to-M play with action figures or toy trucks and stuff.

I don't now, but when I was a kid my favourite toys were my hot wheels racing cars. I wanted a GI Joe, but got Barbie. So she wound up being Commando Barbie. I set up zip lines all over and tied her to a sock hanger and had her parachute into hazardous situations. I never played with dolls, and I recall having a few, so someone probably gave them to me. My parents were pretty cool about buying gender-appropriate (ie: male) toys for me, other than not seeing the difference between GI Joe and Barbie.

I liked craft kits too. Woodburning, glass cutting, and resin-casting. Had a really cool electric circuit-board that I could pop resistors and capacitors into and see what happened to the current.

I used to make go-carts and race them down hills and play on my skateboard as well. I lived in a rural area, so a lot of what we did was outdoors - building forts, playing marbles and stuff like that.

Dennis

I was always brought the proper male toys, guns and plastic soldiers, construction sets, but my most favorite of all was my teddy bear called teddy.  "She" was with me where ever I went.  I had her for the longest time, but I'm afraid that I don't remember what happened to her, along with the rest of my childhood 

Chat later,

Steph

                         i was always given male toys and did play with them during the times i played with boys. i played mostly with girls with their toys though. my sister is so much older that her toys were gone when i was young. i loved to use her mirror and hair brush etc. i played dress up with my mom's clothes constantly and i was never discouraged by her, i dont remember if my dad ever saw.

                         i constantly played with my children and played with barbies etc with my daughters, feed their dolls with bottles and things, they really got a kick out of their "dad" playing with them. when my oldest daughter was 16 or so she was feeling grown up and was giving her dolls to goodwill. i looked in the box and saw a doll i loved because it was so cute and it was always my favorite, so i took it and said i'm keeping her. i was about 40 then and i kept the doll on my bed, slept with her, took her with me on trips etc. and i still have norma jean today.

beth

I never had any dolls while growing up and rarely played with them when available, I was always punished for such behavior if caught doing so.  I never played with toy soldiers either or many other toys.  I got more into tinker toys and erector sets and spent time alone either reading books or building things.  I even got into building structures out of ice cream sticks, which I collected for that purpose, some of these projects taking a month or more.

As an adult, I have collected dolls, and music boxes, but of the collector type, and not expensive ones.  I never played with any of these as my attraction to them is for thier beauty, detail and special meanings to me, I simply love to have them around me, as they have a calming effect. 

I have only one doll that is special to me in an intimate way, the most recent addition.  She does not sleep with me and I do not play with her, or touch her other then to occassionally move her closer to where I am, then back.   She has a special place of her own and I often go sit with her and she always knows my mood and my mind and talks with me in my mind, about things I can talk to no one else about, but she does not always agree with me and is hard on me at times, but she keeps me on track and always makes me feel better when I sit with her.  I have found dolls can be very special as a way of communicating your own feelings and best interest back to you when things are confusing.  Perhaps a little crazy I know, but if it's positive, it's good, as long as you realize it is just a doll with your own memories and experience echoing back at you.

Terri

when I was younger, yes. playing with Barbie dolls was fun.

I remember a stuffed male doll I use to play with till I was about 7 or 8, then one day it disapeared, I think my dad may have had something to do with it. Gosh I'm 55 now and thats the first time I thought of that doll in 45 years

Bernice   

I think I've said this before elsewere but I'll say it again here. Asked for a Barbie, got a GI Joe.
Asked for an Easy Bake oven, got a Vacu Form. I always had to go to my girlfriend's houses and play with their dolls. I did take the GI Joe doll with me and dressed him up in Barbie clothes. Too bad I don't have any pictures. lol  Ultimately GI Joe was burnt to a puddle in an unfortunate mishap when his space capsule inexplicably caught fire on the launching pad.
Hmmmm, now how did that happen?  >


Cassie

I have to ask for clarification.

  If a person says they have always felt they were female wouldn't playing with playing with boy toys be considered cross gender behavior?

I had the vacuform, but my sister got the Easy Bake oven.  Being older, I "helped" her a lot with the oven!

Chaunte

Quotewouldn't playing with playing with boy toys be considered cross gender behavior?

I'm not sure I get the question. Do you mean a person who identifies as female playing with say a GI Joe as being crossgender male activity? Or, are you saying that playing at playing with boy toys is crossgender?

Cassie

 

QuoteI'm not sure I get the question. Do you mean a person who identifies as female playing with say a GI Joe as being crossgender male activity? Or, are you saying that playing at playing with boy toys is crossgender?

Yes


If a woman wears any clothing sold for men she could be considered a cd by definition.

My favourite toys as a kid were my model cars. I must have about 100 - 150, and I had this thing which was like a model tiny city, and I would spend ages playing with that. I also have a Scalextix (sp?), but that broke ages ago.

I got given quite a few barbie dolls as well, but their fate was having a lot of their hair cut off, being sat in one of the larger (and non-valuable) cars and being sent hurtling down the staris... happy days.

I love remote control cars...

Jaycie got me a remote control Jeep last year for christmas... OMG I have so much fun with that thing hahaha....

ah... memories...  ...as a kid i played baby-karate (my own invention) with my doll, very violent, threw it against the ceiling & stuff, didn't know what to do w/ the cradle ... broke the one barbie doll i owned... played w/ my dad's old toys (fake guns & stuff), pretend games after tv series, Dick Turpin, Battlestar Galactica, Robin Hood...

(just in case people are getting scared as they read this: i did become more gentle as i grew up... )

DICK TURPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been ages since I head that name. 

Steph

I was always at home and comfortable with stuffed animals. Crazy Cow was my best friend. I would dress him up in night gowns, old shirts and take him everywhere. Even sleep with him. I loved playing with dolls with my other girl friends when I was about 7-8, just at the time when I started realizing things. I was always doing girl things with them and I was happy doing them! I was always envious of the girls who got clothes and jewelry.

Cassandra you crack me up!! 

QuoteI did take the GI Joe doll with me and dressed him up in Barbie clothes. Too bad I don't have any pictures. lol   Ultimately GI Joe was burnt to a puddle in an unfortunate mishap when his space capsule inexplicably caught fire on the launching pad.

I have to admit that I mostly played with boys stuff when I was kid, although I never felt 'one of the boys' when I played with boys, more like a 'different kind of kid playing with boys'.

I am sure I played with girls from time to time, but cant remember any specifics.

However, I was heavily into 'Action Man' (UK equivalent of GI Joe), so much so that I think it annoyed my father, and I can clearly remember one instance of him giving me a hard time over 'playing with dolls' about it.


Hehe, unconnected with the thread, but just had a cute memory pop into my head of playing 'Buses' with my sisters. The stairs were the bus, and I was always the driver (my dad had been a bus driver, but wasn't at the time).

Reaffirms my belief that my TGism must be related to something in my teens, when my social interaction with the world changed.

I always got gender appropiate toys, but what I really wanted is Barbie dolls.  I always liked playing house, baking, cleaning and stuff like that.  I would play with the girl next door all the time as I was always more comfortable around girls than boys.

For a great many years, all I ever asked for for Christmas was a doll. I never got one so I "expropriated" one of my sister's. Being the older has some advantages 

Now, long after transion, I play with boy's toys a lot - I collect and restore antique machinery  All the boys envy my collection.

Of course I have a huge colection of stuffed animals to!

Life is GREAT - as a girl you can play with BOTH!