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Crossdressing or transsexuality can manifest itself in childhood or adolescence.
Many boys who become trans girls already identify with the opposite sex before puberty. Of course, this identification deepens with the onset of puberty. In fact, most boys who experience an episode of gender dysphoria end up satisfied with their biological sex when they reach adolescence and adulthood.
Although I have no interest in switching sex, I tried on a bra at 12 when I saw girls at school starting to wear one.
In a poll of men who wear bras, they were asked at what age they first wore a bra (transsexuality, crossdressing/underdressing or even gynecomastia).
Here are the results:
6 years or younger: 2%
7 to 9 years: 8%
10 to 12: 29%
13 to 15: 24%
16 to 17: 4%
18 to 24: 11%
25 to 49: 5%
50 or elder: 8% (The majority of older men who adhered to the bra did so because of gynecomastia caused by medications and medical treatments)
Most cases are concentrated in the range between 10 and 15 years, that is, the stage of puberty – where sexual characteristics begin to develop.
Today, there are some lingerie (panties and bras) designed for the male body. But some men who love bras wonder what it would be like if there were training bra… for boys!
On Pinterest there are some ad montages of old training bras packaging with male models…
What if some manufacturer decided to manufacture training bras for boys?
I believe this product would suit trans girls who are still waiting for the transition process, crossdresser boys and boys who like to wear bras. The minimum age for the use of the product would be 9 or 10 years old.
Maybe it would be a chance to break taboos and prejudices.
If I conceived a line of training bras for boys, I would develop three products:
- A bralette bra, seamless, no clasps and no adjusters. It must be such that it is unnoticeable.
- A seamless bralette bra, but with clasps and adjusters. A more suitable model for those who want to familiarize themselves with the bra, learning how to adjust the straps and how to button and unbutton the bra.
- A bra that is almost the same as the second one, but with a small pad to simulate small breasts for those who have not started hormonal treatment or who have not yet developed breasts.
It would also launch models of panties (matching or not), suited to the male anatomy.
I think actions like this could help young trans and crossdressers. Most of them discover themselves in their teens and are often in a difficult situation.
This subject is still taboo and needs to be discussed with ideas and affirmative action.
Boys who have gynecomastia and cannot be operated on may also benefit. Why have the pain and embarrassment of jiggling if he can wear a bra that gives him comfort?
That way, the taboo ends and everyone feels better as they are.
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Thank you for taking the time to read my article and please feel free to send in comments to my article or an answer to one or more of the questions below:
*Did you try panties or training bra on as a teenager?
*Would you buy panties or training bra designed for boys if that had existed in your teenage years?
*Do you think there is a market or demand for this?
Sincerely, Marie
I started dressing when I was 12, I did wear my Mothers and Sisters panties and bra's and definitely would have been interested in buying a training bra when I was younger. I don't think I would have wanted one for boys because the whole purpose is that you want to dress as a girl would dress not a boy. Even now I am not interested in thongs or fancy underwear for men, I wear panties because they are for Women.
I'm with you, Kimberly Ann. We want to wear bras and panties because they are intimate garments charged with the meaning of belonging to a different gender. They also have a sensual appeal in and of themselves due to the way they're made, fabrics, straps etc.
To be a development that catches on and becomes a marketable product I think that there would have to be a cultural change so that whatever a person wore as underwear would be acceptable. thinking on my jr high & high school experience I can't imagine being in a locker room and changing into gym attire when my prepared-for-a-male bra and panty would be widely observed. Has life changed so much that such a situation would not result in negative experiences? I don't think so, especially for the jr high age group. Am I off base too far?
I tried on a pair of little girl tights at 4 and was hooked. I had an interest in dressing since. Found my mothers pantyhose at about 12. I fantasized a lot and loved the women's section of the Sears catalog. Did not fully dress or venture out until much later, wish I had done it sooner. If the cultural norms were different I may have turned out different.
I was always a chubby boy so the gynecomastia started early. My girly feelings did too. I could never fill moms bras though. To have some of my own would’ve been incredible!
So often I've found myself in the minority, but here I'm not, as I started trying on my Mom's lingerie around 12.
At the time I certainly couldn't have imagined buying anything for myself, as I was so embarrassed, I thought I was the only person like this. However growing up now, instead of the early 60's might be an entirely different situation it might be a consideration.
I suspect there is a market for this, but how large it is I have no idea.
Amy
To me this is a marketing ploy. If a child believes they are a girl then what's better to go into a store, browse the girls things and they choose what they want. It seems counter productive to say that you aren't a girl as such but there are 'special' clothes for you thus making a distinction that may be confusing to them. Girls clothes fit boys and always have done. Adults clothes are a bit different but still fit although the physique isn't quite right.
I wore my sisters clothes and then mothers right up to the time I outgrew them. I started to wear a bra when my sisters developed. Crop tops weren't a fashion item then so it wasn't an issue.So the poll shows that the highest percentage of boys wearing bras was 10 -15, the time when girls start wearing them so it makes sense.
I have noticed in the last few years that men are wearing bralettes or crop tops as there is now a fashion. I saw a soccer player score a goal and he took off his shirt to reveal a bralette.
Like many of you here I started wearing woman's clothes around 12. There were complicated family issues involved, if any of you are interested in opening that can of worms, PM me. I was driven by the idea that being a girl is "better" than being a boy (still believe that) and I would have preferred to be a girl (still do). Wearing a bra that had Ken on it rather than Barbie would not have appealed to me. As far as panties are concerned, same idea would have held serve. Fast forward to today and maybe. My moobs could use some sort of support but I don't like wearing panties full time. I find that my "junk" (whoever thought of using that word to describe male gentelia must have been trans) slides out between the gusset and a leg hole, very uncomfortable. I wind up wearing a gaff under my panties and that's a lot better. So, panties designed for men's junk that were prettier than just a solid color design would work for me.
Marie, you have some wonderful ideas!! They say that most women's fashions, clothes, lingerie, shoes, and makeup are designed by men. I often wondered if those designers tried on their own products.
The 3 things you mentioned would be very suitable for boys, trans, and girls too. The solutions you have are gender-less, and that's so beautiful. Girls struggle with the same things you have a solution for.. ease of use, keeping it discreet, wanting a better breast shape. Curious boys would welcome the option.
I was around 6 when I felt the desire to mimic my mom. I was 8 or 9 when I tried on my first bra, with a dress, heels, pantyhose, everything. My memories are looking like a young Mrs. Doubtfire after one of those comical parts in the movie.
At that age, if I was growing up now, I would ask my mom for a male bra if the packaging was labelled to show a male model and in the boys dept. A lot like how joggers, leggings and oversized shirts, satchels are marketed to boys and men at Target. Seeing my nephews dress in what my old-guy age group would have made fun off when we were that age... it's beautiful to see the world evolving, just wishing I was born decades later to have embraced non-binary genders in my own adolescence, dating, long term relationships.
It's the one thing I wished was to have been more honest about my gender feeling much earlier in life. Life would have less dilemmas than losing time and energy daily with wanting to change to openly being a crossdresser.
I started like I was around 10 years with my sister panties and bra I was grt all her hand me down when I buy panties and things I don't buy the guy one I go in the ladies department section and buy there panties thongs and bras
I don't think Is not a bad ideal the question is any parent will buy them for their kids
Hi Marie,
I came to "underdressing" by an unusual route (to say the least), and when I bought myself a bra (I was 18 at the time) the fact that it was female underwear was the reason for the whole thing. Such was my need at the time to "turn the dial up to 11" that I bought a heavy long-line bra (Triumph "Doreen"). If there had been such a thing as bras for men, it would have held no interest for me.
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Marie,
Interesting article, several valid issues. I think you have a good idea that might catch on with these more accepting times. And yes, I would have liked to purchased such items as a pre-teen/teen, just wonder though if I would have had the courage to do so back then. Had to be satisfied with my mom's "big girl" bras and panties. Oh! the thrill!!
In my second or third year becoming a teenager I shoplifted many things, makeup, panties, nail polish etc. Things a boy wouldn't approach the checkout or clerk with. One of those things was training bra's which I started wearing most of the time around 14 or 15. My sister even caught me wearing one one day. I was like a deer in headlights when she came into my room and seen me in a bra and panties getting dressed. Up to that point no one knew. I chose a training bra because they were small and pretty much unnoticed. By the way I don't shoplift anymore after I was caught stealing makeup. Long time ago.
