Topic: When did you realise you were the opposite gender?

[Janet_Girl]

I put 10-20.  I always remember my Mom teaching my things that little girls were taught cooking, housekeeping, stuff like that.  In middle school the boys took Home Ec and the girls took Shop,  part of a cross education experiment I think.  But I took to the Sewing, and cooking like a fish to water.  That is when the bullying started.  I was different and a target.  I started wearing my Mom's clothes when they were not home and it felt normal.  I did the same thing with my first wife.  It wasn't until I hit 20 that I found out that there was such a thing as ' A woman trapped in a male body '.  It was then that I knew of sure and I have been fighting it ever since, until NOW.  I am '' this close to full time and I can not be happier.

[Elwood]

My vote was based on gender. I realized my gender identity when I was 17.

But I've always felt like I was in the wrong sort of body.

[JENNIFER]

I am '' this close to full time and I can not be happier.

Oh yes !!  I have been fulltime for nearly 3 years and it is wonderful not ever having to think about it.  Of course, other challenges remain but at least I can concentrate on the medical side of things rather than whether I should be a man or a woman to suit circumstances 

I am obviously mindful of those of us that cannot go fulltime and I wish the best of outcomes for you but I believe that the sooner one decides, the better it is for you in the long term. 

[Hypatia]

I have been fulltime for nearly 3 years and it is wonderful not ever having to think about it.  Of course, other challenges remain but at least I can concentrate on the medical side of things rather than whether I should be a man or a woman to suit circumstances 

That's a good way to put it. The major burden has been lifted from us. All that remains is tidying up.

[JennyTG]

Wow, guess I was kinda late, 20-50.  Lots of confusion for moi through the years.

~Jenny~

[Radar7]

I want to say 10-20. Even though I've had thoughts when I was 8 or so, I always thought they were normal and disregarded them. It wasn't until I was 18/19 that I finally realized that they're not normal thoughts and I may be trans.

[jackiefox5585]

When I was really little. my mom bathed me with a  bunch of girls. also we often went swimming together and I quickly noticed how different they were. So early on I started to question myself. Then one day I had this really vivid dream where I swapped genders with a girl. again at like 5 years old.

At first when I volunteered for the trade I thought it would just mean my penis would be missing. The deal in the dream was it would just be for one week and we'd trade back. I was afraid the girl would refuse to trade back and I wouldn't get it back. But my curiosity sort of powered me through the reservation. 

Well anyways in the dream it certainly felt like it was missing. But I could feel that I had something else down there instead. Though in the dream I was never able to explore it. But I sort of felt energized all over. like the trade gave me a new kick or something. anyways it wasn't long before I was the one not wanting to trade back. Though that was all nullified anyways when I woke up.

[Vicente]

1-10 , to be exact at 7. I used to tell my mother I would grow up a boy (which was promptly ridiculed) and then I had my first shark week at 9 went ballistic. It was very painful, intense and traumatic tbh, I thought I would literally die because it was not natural to happen to me (still do, I just cope better), why the feck a boy is bleeding?? When my body started to change I felt betrayed and disconnected from that body. Still hoped it would change the way I felt it should.

Didn't knew exactly about trans and what that meant but found one or two things about HRT. I must have commented with my mother and she was very mean about it, then I closeted for real.

Oh boy, replying these things really helps digging about one self. That's so going to reach my future therapist.

[madeleine]

The first time I got even close to being conscious about this was a few months ago.  I mean I knew, but I didn't know. 

So, my fifties.  *sigh*

[sarahc]

Probably around 5 or 6 years old. There were a couple incidents that both my mom and I remember that point to some dysphoria around that age. I didn't come out until a year and a half ago. I knew I was transgender for pretty much my whole life but told no one until 16 months ago.

Sarah

[pamelatransuk]

Always knew and remember telling my grandmother aged 4 in 1959.

Hugs

Pamela  xx

[randim]

I have cross-dressed since an early age, but I didn't really accept that it was possible to live 24x7 until late in life.  So I put 50+. When I was younger it was easy to peg the dressing as a fetish.  I have had loads of cognitive dissonance going on my whole life about this.  It's kind of a hard truth about yourself to accept in this culture, and I did a great job denying it for a long time.

[Geeker]

Somewhere around age 10. It wasn't so much that I "knew I was a girl", as it was that I didn't feel comfortable in my skin and couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until around age 15-16 that I really began to figure out why, but at that time "being transgender" wasn't even something I had heard of. And that was only 20 years ago. I'm still not comfortable in my own body, but at least now as an adult I know why.

[Victoria L]

My first post in here many many years ago mentioned me first having feelings in fifth grade. However, just in the last month I have discovered it was much earlier. When cleaning a room, I found a drawing from like kindergarten (my mom thinks that's when it was from, it was certainly really early) where I straight up wrote "Im a girl". 

This then got discussed with my aunt and she then went on about how around that very age I was talking about how I didn't want to be a guy/do guy things, and wanted to be a girl and be with the girls.

So, there you have it, it happened much earlier. Like maybe around 5 or 6.

[CaelaNotKayla]

For me the real question isn't when did I know- but when did I realize that I knew. Having a sense that something wasn't right- age 1-10.  Starting to understand what that really meant- age 20-50.

Caela.