I can very much relate to you. My pops is old school, and in his culture(and my mother's, who is from different culture/nationality) they have traditional views of what women can and cannot do. When I was younger, I would be locked up in the house while my brothers could do whatever they wanted because "you're a girl, they're boys". I also hate that people refer to women as "girls" but not men as "boys", it does not make sense to me. It seems a bit deaming...

Anyhow, when I brought up to the mum about my cousin being TiM, she thought he was just a gay man and that it was whatever but did not see the bigger picture. However, she is known to flip flop sides, just to be antagonizing to me on purpose. I KNOW she does not favour LGB people nor trans nor atheists. I happen to be two of those things (The B in LGB and atheist). Her country is deeply catholic...

Same, pretty much I saw myself as a "boy" and HATED being seen as a girl but I did not take hormones nor get surgery. For one, it was scary. Two, I was/am not a fan of plastic surgery...So much can go wrong. Three, I was deeply confused. I THOUGHT I would be happy if I woke up as a boy one day and felt deeply depressed. But, I felt much like this due to culture background of people around me saying "boys can do this, girls CAN'T do that" which felt limiting...