Is it possible to *become* transgender because you had no father figure? I read an article that was about fathers teaching their sons lessons and stuff and that fathers are really important for a son's development or something. As a kid I wasn't very outdoor/action-oriented but neither I was very interested in "girl things" so maybe if I had a father in my life I wouldn't have turned out this way?
>>7506846
Perhaps, an interesting subject, if you ever find the article again, please link it! But you are as you are now and that's all that matters! Be well!
>>7506846
I had a dad and I never liked sports or outdoorsy stuff that much.
Sometimes people are just nerdy basement dwellers all on their own lol
>correlation = causation
>looking for shitty anecdotes to offput the blame for your mental illness on a nonfactor
>>7506853
Here: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/its-a-boy-thing
>>7506846
sociology student here.
What usually happens is
>father leaves
>boy baby grows up
>has no father figure
>looks to society for father figure
>creates a composite father figure from members of the community, older peers, and mass media
>learns how men act from how men act in public, never how men act in private.
>never learns that men can have full range of expressions
>>7506846
I"m kinda the opposite I played outside a ton and only had boys to hangout with. I was never exposed to "girly things". I had a dad but he was a drunk who was not very interactive in my life.
>>7506846
I highly doubt that, I mean, most black men grow up without a father figure, and they turn out perfectly normal... right?... guis?
>>7506846
Maybe its possible but I had a father that was always there for me and still ended up like this. Probably shouldn't think too much about it or let it bother you.