Dee Salmon

I felt left out because I was like, oh, no one thinks that I'm, no guy's giving me attention because I am flat chested.

And, like, also just going, like, to places with your parents and, like, even, like, their male friends, like, looked at you.

I don't know.

I just feel like it was reflected in even just, like, the adults around you.

Yeah, or, like, people commenting on your body developing or, like, men being like, oh, you're –

Growing up really fast for your age or something.

Yeah.

It's just a bit like you just all of a sudden are being perceived.

In a really kind of uncomfortable, gross way.

When I was probably about nine or 10, I started to hit puberty and really the worst part of it was being sexualized at such a young age.

I got boobs really early, earlier than anyone else in my year.

wolf whistled, an older guy would wink at me.

There are many, many instances where I was just very over-sexualised and became very aware of the sexualisation of women in society from a very early age, which is a disappointing experience to have when you're like 11 and 12.

Yeah.

I feel like puberty is such a pivotal moment where you're – like everyone kind of is just like hanging out and like you're young and you're a kid and there's no idea really – I mean there's obviously like the pink and the blue and we separate gender.

But then it's only really until puberty where that really heightens and people start –

Telling you exactly how you should be in society and like your role and like the sexualization that we've been talking about.

So yeah, it's just such a like, that's why I'm so shocked by it not being higher than 12% for the traumatizing experiences.

And yeah, it's not just the experiences of, you know, maybe people who are trans or women who are going through these like momentous moments where they're being told exactly like who they should be in the world.

But also a lot of guys, right?