Becoming A Woman
I'm part of a FB Group called Big Cisters - a safe place for cisgender and transgender women to come together in sisterhood solidarity and share the joys and challenges of womanhood. Today I saw this post, written by Mo Cherry -
Dear my sisters
I recently had a realization I'd like to share with my trans loves about the whole "woman enough" struggle.
I hope that you all know that this is actually a huge part of adolescences into womanhood. Cis young women perform feminily in a similar way when we are trying to figure out what leaving behind girlhood is and stepping out into our adult woman selves. Before Instagram at least, lol.
Trying on different looks and styles and makeup and even voices is so much a part of girlhood, It's kind of like playing dress up until you find the "costume" that actually feels like you.
Every time I see this phase in young women or trans folks, I find it so endearing. I know it;s a struggle while you're in it, but it's so quintessentially "girl finding her place in the world", and I just love us gals.
Reading this, I was reminded that those of us who are MTF Crossdressers never had this chance to experiment, because we were never young girls - we were young boys trying to understand why we had the desire to wear womwn's clothes. So now when I see a fellow CD'er wearing an outfit that's too young for them, or make up that doesn't work with their coloring or age, I acknowledge that they are going through their move from girlhood to womanhood.
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