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- Aug 14, 2017
I see several angles here.There are girls who are excited about growing up too and they used to be widely represented in kid-directed media, including and especially works by women which were applauded as being groundbreaking for their realism (ie Judy Blume). So it seems like this is a case of the outliers being outspoken and coopting the narrative to make themselves seem normal, as usual.
The usual "type" back in the day was a girl with an eating disorder, and often she had learned somehow that being an adult female was dangerous or at least extremely unfun and wanted to put it off as long as possible. There were a number of reasons why she would think this, many of them having to do with deranged adults in her life.
1. Being a lesbian teenage girl is inherently outside the norm and it always will be. Your peers suddenly start wanting to dress and behave in ways that will lead to male attraction, and you don't. This possibly includes other tomboys you knew, if you are one. You feel uncomfortable because of this.
2. You have huge boobs and it is in fact very physically uncomfortable.
3. Fat. American obesity rates are through the roof. This is 2 but worse. You feel trapped in your body. You're not sexually attractive. But the messages you're getting is that other fat women love their bodies and feel confident and sexy. Why don't you? What's wrong with you? You must be trans.
4. Also, some sort of disability. I know an FTM with neurofibramatosis, for example. It would not surprise me at all if teenage girls with disabilities trooned out more. You already feel like you have a lack of control over your body. Diabulimia exists (an eating disorder among girls with diabetes where they fuck with their insulin) and wherever there's ED there's troons too.
'Body positivity' is bad. 'Body neutrality' is better. It's okay to be uncomfortable sometimes. This is a fact of human existence.