The first lesson was again History. Mr. Bronson had to look twice when he noticed Jon’s white knee socks and his hairless legs emerging from his pleated skirt. Jon sat with Michelle at the back of the class. They handed their homework in from the previous evening, which Mr. Bronson marked as the class watched […]

That afternoon he got teased about his gym slip by a couple of girls who he’d played dodgeball with. However a few other girls from his team came to his defence, saying that he’d played well. One added, “Anyway we were all in gym slips so what does it matter? Plus… our team did win […]

“Peter!” shouted his mother from the foot of the stairs. “What?” Peter shouted from his bedroom. “I need to go into town to get some things for Abigail’s party on Saturday.” “OK.” he shouted back. A moment later his mum shouted, “Well come on then, I haven’t got all day.” “Can’t I stay here?” he […]

Peter’s mother visited Margo’s Hair Salon every fortnight and as a result, knew the proprietor, Margo very well. As well as the usual soap operas, holidays, celebrity gossip and current affairs conversations, Peter himself is often the subject of their biweekly chats. Like many boys of his age group, he gets up to mischief once […]

Sissy Peterkins watched his older sister Sally practicing her tap dancing in the back garden, and noticing he was intrigued, she offered to teach him some steps. “Now the basic steps are…” his sister demonstrates, and Peter tries his best to do them. “That’s really good Peter,” she says after ten minutes. “No, it isn’t… […]

Mrs Spencer is wiping the windowsill of a back bedroom window when she notices two schoolgirls walking down the alley at the back of the house. She doesn’t recognize either of them so they certainly don’t live on this terrace, and it’s not an alley that leads to anywhere so they can’t be taking a […]

“So what’s this I’ve heard about a protest tomorrow?” Toby’s mother asked when he arrived home from school. “Something to do with the boys not being allowed to wear shorts…” “Errr, yeah… some of them are going to wear skirts tomorrow.” he replied. “So they claim anyway.” “And are you going to be involved?” “No.” […]

From the first moment I saw a picture of our new house I knew exactly which bedroom I wanted. It’s the one with three windows overlooking the porch roof. I always thought it was cool in movies and TV shows when kids could sneak out of their bedroom window, clamber over the roof then climb […]

That doesn’t matter here.” she said, glancing at her associates. “We regularly shun our femininity.” she told me. “Not because we’re ashamed of our feminal qualities.” she explained. I wasn’t even sure what feminal qualities were. “On the contrary young Thomas…” she continued. “…nothing feels more wonderful than satin and silk against your skin and […]

My first experience in being feminized now seems so stereotypical to me,  but at the time it was the most terrifying, humiliating, and haunting thing that could happen to anyone in the world. I had a sister who was 4 years older than me. We got a lot most of the time as kids but […]