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Through out life there is the argument of nurturing versus nature being the major influences on how we develop as human beings. In other words, an example could be which parent did you more closely identify with and did that decision have an impact on your gender decisions later in life. So many of us in my age range grew up with distant fathers whose generation leaned towards more of a provider roll, versus an emotional one. For example, my Dad was always a wonderful provider but emotionally distant.
My Dad was also very much a self made man rising from the depths of the depression, serving in WWII all the way to retiring as a bank vice president. What does this have to do with nurturing as a parent, he just wasn’t able to embrace that part of parenthood which left my Mom to do it. Perhaps at that point I became more interested in how she applied her makeup and presented herself to the world rather than being allowed to tag along with my Dad as he built his own house.
All of those reasons sound like an oversimplification to me. I’m sure my slightly younger brother as well as the rest of the neighborhood boys one way or another were raised the same way and didn’t turn out to be transgender, or at the least have gender issues.
My First Girls Night Out, I’m on the top left.
