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"I'm a Boy" is a 1966 rock song written by Pete Townshend for the Who.[3] The song was originally intended to be a part of a rock opera called Quads, which was to be set in a future in which parents can choose the sex of their children.

The song is about a family who "order" four girls, but a mistake is made and three girls and one boy are delivered instead. The boy dreams of partaking in sports and other boy-type activities, but his mother forces him to act like his sisters and refuses to believe the truth

That's hard to read as anything but a metaphor for being transmasc

For sadness: listen to I'm a Boy by the Who and then read songwriter and guitatist Pete Townshend's Age of Anxiety. You will realise that anything cool in I'm A Boy is an accident and actually he has freakish boomer takes about gender. Guy should have never written a novel, it's ghastly.

Favourite Pete from his novel: the one where his 60something art dealer self insert is eyeing up this under-20 girl with a diamond tooth for some reason who is gay, and he reflects that women turn lesbian as a tantrum of sorts in reaction to not getting the men they want. Or maybe the bit where he uses the book's entire plot as a bit to excuse the concept of sexual assault...? or just the part where his narration spends several pages staring at a lady's ass. A special type of guy.

Signed, a lifelong and way-too-committed Who fan. If you ever hear something in the Who's albums that sounds surface level kind of weird, it's absolutely that weird.

Cursed special interest