It starts when the doctor says
“it’s a girl”...........
They dote you with pink, and read you fairytales about prince charming. They define your role, and assign your goal; a heterosexual marriage. They teach you how to pull through pretend tea parties, and push a pretend baby carriage. They tell you the boy who hits you secretly likes you, and as soon you hit puberty they begin to infantilize you; hide your period, shave your pubes, don't talk back, don't walk alone, don't have sex, your place is at home. How backwards is it to be assigned as a girl at birth? As a girl they teach you how to become a woman, and then when you become a woman they teach you how to stay a girl.