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A Boy with a Girl’s Mind

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Oct 24th 2011 08:46 gender student
I often see a girl walking to the junior high school in my neighborhood and I was wondering why she wears a boy’s school uniform. The girl’s school uniform is composed of a blazer and a skirt while the boy’s one is a blazer and pants. So I can easily see she is always wearing the boy’s one.

Her hair is long and ponytailed. She is slim and walks beautifully. I guessed she might refuse to wear a skirt for some reason.

The other day, I finally found out the reason. I talked with my neighbor whose son is a junior high student. She knew about the girl.

To my surprise, she is physically a boy, but her mind is a girl. Her parents have accepted the fact. She wanted to wear a girl’s uniform and asked the school to let her to do so, but they didn’t allow it. That’s why she has to wear a boy’s uniform. However, at least she can grow your hair and have a girl’s haircut. Probably she acts as a girl at school, too.

Lately, “gender identity disorder” is getting to be known. There were some TV dramas or books about it, and there is a fashion model who has the problem.
So I knew about that, but I had never seen a person like that in person.

I don’t have any negative feelings about those people. I just imagine how difficult for them to live as they want.

I am relieved to hear that the girl is getting along very nicely with her classmates. Other girls treats her as a girl and enjoy being with her.
ChaseOfHearts
Thank you for your correction!
Oct 24th 2011 08:53
  • I just imagine how difficult for them to live as they want.

  • I just try to imagine how difficult it must be for them to live as they want.

 
I'm always happy to hear when parents are able to accept and support their children whose sexual and gender identities go against the status quo. I wish the best for the girl and her family!
Nov 01st 2011 11:26 neginohana
Thank you for your correction and comment.

I agree with you.
It must be tough for her parents to accept the fact, but it's important to face it and support her. I am glad they do.
tony
Oct 24th 2011 09:33
Did you by any chance read the manga 放浪息子 or see the anime series which was made from it? I thought it was a surprisingly sensitive and convincing exploration of the entire issue of gender identity-- not only for children whose identities deviate from social norms, but also for so-called "normal" children. The children are middle schoolers who are approaching puberty. Among them are a boy who wishes he had been born as a girl, and a girl who wishes she had been born as a boy. We see the development of social identity in all of the children, however, with the difficulties of these two children serving to highlight the complexity of what is going on with the rest of the characters as well. The children sometimes seemed too mature emotionally for their ages, but otherwise, I found the details of the personality interactions between them very believable. I think it is well worth reading or watching. The manga is still ongoing; I would not be surprised if there is another season of the anime at some point.
Nov 01st 2011 11:33 neginohana
Thank you for your comment. Sorry for my late reply.

I haven't heard of the manga, so I googled it. It looks like a complicated story.
I think it can be a good opportunity to know about people like that. Probably there are a lot of people who have the problem and can't be understood by others.
Nov 01st 2011 19:21 tony
I think part of the point of the manga, and what makes it better than many others which deal with gender identity, is that so-called "normal" social and sexual development is just as complicated and hard to understand, and that there is a great deal of variety in how so-called "normal" people adapt to social expectations as well. In any case, it does not do what many manga and anime do with this issue, which is using reversal of stereotypes as a source of humor or excitement, without any attempt to be realistic, or any questioning of the stereotypes themselves.
Nov 01st 2011 23:14 neginohana
Wow, sounds interesting. You make me want to read the manga.
Eliezer
Oct 25th 2011 08:12
I hope that person will not get bullied by her peers in school in the future.^_^
Nov 01st 2011 11:37 neginohana
Thank you for your comment.

Yes, I hope so, too.
In this area, every children goes to the same elementary school, and the same junior high school, so all of her classmates have known her character for a long time, and she is getting along with them now.
I hope she will be understood by people around her when she leave the junior high and goes to a high school somewhere out of this community.
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