I wonder what Katherine Hepburn, Truman Capote and Willa Cather would have ended up like if their parents had allowed them to pursue the idea that they were a different sex. All 3 thought they were the opposite sex as children but grew up to become great artists. Probably another case of the artistic gene going haywire.
Perhaps. Another possibility is that all three, like so many performers, came from seriously dysfunctional home environments - a situation that correlates both with creative careers and with sex-related abnormalities.
I never got the idea that Capote was a cross-dresser. He seemed like a typical Southern Queen to me.
When I was a young girl being a tom boy was not considered to be a bad thing.
Being an only child of my parents probably had to do with the serious effects of the great depression.
I’ve noted that about the “gay” set too. Modern society doesn’t seem to have a lot of room for emotive men, for example. (I’d posit that this has a lot to do with the fact that said society doesn’t have a lot of room for Jesus.) Forced to grow into a stunted box with their capacities, the devil is right there to coax them into cheap substitutes, which they pursue with characteristic passion that few others can understand.
Artists, actors, writers, speak from the depths of trauma and personal experience. I would be interested in a psych study that would put them on a bell curve with disorders on one end and positive activists on the other.
I have a suspicion it would be the same type of bell curve that occurs within the general population when a natural disaster or a 9/11 occurs.