Transitioning Early In Life Versus Transitioning Later In Life

[Natasha]

Transitioning Early In Life Versus Transitioning Later In Life

http://transpacificgirl.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/transitioning-early-in-life-versus-transitioning-later-in-life/
7/5/11
by transpacificgirl

When I was younger, the calendars read 1960′s and 1970′s, and in those days you would never have seen an article written with this much respect and compassion. It would only have been written with some sordid, sensationalist angle, and thus any youth who happened to read it would see that to be transgender (transsexual was the term used then)  was to be a freak and a target. And what young person struggling to cope with all these feelings of difference and isolation already would invite more of that? So, realistically, transitioning when I was younger was something I would not, and did not, even have considered. Not then.

Today, things are different, not perfect, but much better. There is more understanding, more support, more connection for transgender youth. And so I gaze at their unmarked faces, smoothly morphing into their true gender with the help of timely hormone therapy, and my happiness for them is tinged with a bitterness that I really wasn't given those same opportunities and have lived the greater half of my life as the wrong gender.

[V M]

It's amazing how things have changed... I grew up during the 60's and 70's also and things were very rough on gals like me... I definitely wish there would have been the resources and understanding of today... I definitely would have had the courage to transition much earlier and probably would have lead a much happier life

Sure, there is still a long way to go, but hey,... We've come a long way baby

I'm glad the young transitioners of today have the resources available to them and don't have to experience allot of the stuff I did... They have their own pile of stuff to deal with and I wish them well

[Amazon D]

I am neither bitter nor jelous but very happy for the youth of today with this regard. May they live their dreams. I dreampt a dream before i ever came into this body and that dream is my life. Ever changing ever growing but always mine. May all your dreams come true.

to dream the impossible dream.

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

everyone is put on this earth when they are put on for a reason. it's a part of what makes you into the person you are. that's how i think of it. if you were born in a time period where transitioning was not an option, but you did so later. well, that was how it was meant to work out. i didn't do a "perfect" kim petras style transition, but i was able to start when i was almost 18, so now i'm just learning to embrace everything i am. i try not to be like "i'm too tall, my shoulders are broad, and this and that." i'm actually learning to like being what i am and not wanting to be anything else. transition has allowed me to value myself, and it doesn't matter that i wasn't fulltime by the time i was 3, and taking female hormones at 12.