No... The other girls don’t feel this way
So I grew up for most of my life not actually knowing I was transgender or that I had been showing any signs because I was convinced other girls felt the same. I had a fixation on typically acting masculine as well as wishing parts of my body, and myself, were male. There was always this thought in my head, “I want to be a boy,” that would be brushed off by, “other girls probably feel this way.”
Coming out and speaking to my friends and family who are girls made me realize that no, the way I was feeling wasn’t something girls often feel. Girls don’t want flat male chests, they don’t think they’re going to grow a penis when they grow up and they certainly don’t see their future as male when they know they were born a girl.
It became pretty easy, using this, to distinguish how I felt from being a typical tomboy to being an actual boy because the people around me are tomboys and this still isn’t normal. No tomboy wants to be an actual boy, they just typically dress masculine and do more masculine things. I used to be a tomboy, and now if we remove some of the letters, it describes what I really am; a boy.
