I remember when a trans women acquaintance joked that the first time she was cat-called was her "right of passage" into womanhood. She's not wrong. I was first cat-called at 14. Message was loud & clear: now that you're developing, you get to endure lewd remarks from grown men.
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I was first cat-called at around 11. I might have been even younger than that, I can't remember my age but I remember very well what I was wearing and my clothes were sending an obvious message: I am a child.
