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My mom is having a wistful day today, as it is the anniversary of the birth of her oldest child - who tragically died two days after being born.
I have often wondered if the fact that he died, and both me and my older brother both almost died as babies plays into the fact I'm trans ...
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I've often wondered similarly.
I was the middle of 5 siblings. My older brother, born in '45, is 6 years older. A sister was born in '47 but drowned in '48. She wandered out of the house while supposedly napping and fell in the spring house drowning in 4 inches of water. I came along on '51. Photos show me with my naturally curly hair looking like Shirley Temple. My next sister was born in '54. I know I felt jealous of her although I loved her. I always felt I should have been a girl but was forced to be a boy. As an adult I questioned my mom about my early years, about being used as a substitute for my deceased sister. She could not answer. So yeah, I think my transgenderism was fostered by my mom. Unfortunately I've never been able to explore those feelings except in my writing.
Boys will be girls... if they're lucky!
Jennifer Sue
Some evidence
My mother had 6 pregnancies. I was number 6. Two of my brothers died in infancy. One due to RH factor and the other due to a malformed digestive track that cause him to regurgitate everything he ate. I was born in 1945, while my oldest sister was ten years older. My mother would have been about 35 when I was born. There is some evidence that women giving birth over the age of 30 have a higher incidence of transgender offspring. This evidence is far from conclusive.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt