Age i say is nothing!!

[Cindy]

Yes I want to go back to this.
I have not lived as a man for 50 years and then 'decided' to be female. I have been female all my life and am now finally getting the chance to live my life. I never learned how to be a man. I've been a total disaster at it.

Cindy

[LilKittyCatZoey]

so much for a small thread

[Forever21Chic]

     
     I don't think age matters much in regards to transition. Although there is no doubt that a person who comes out and starts transition at an early age has a better chance of fitting in both mentally and physically with their target gender. I know more then a few ts girls that are older and not only pass but mesh well with other females so age doesn't matter much in that sense, it's how you carry yourself that matters.

         

[Cindy]

so much for a small thread

Hey Hun

It is a nice intelligent thread. Nothing bad about it. Be proud for a thread that has interested people.

Hugs Hon

Cindy

[LilKittyCatZoey]

Hey Hun

It is a nice intelligent thread. Nothing bad about it. Be proud for a thread that has interested people.

Hugs Hon

Cindy

Cindy i seem to no matter what make chatty threads i mean i think my one thread made it to 231 posts!!  And all of you are beautiful i dont think i have been wowd this much ever before 

[madirocks]

Sweetie !! your young !! dont over panic your gonna be beautiful either way living with regrets will only spoil the treasured memories

Thank you.

I know for others who have said age does not matter, in regards to transition. I think that is largely in reference to how you look/ feel as compared to how you used to look/ feel.

This is not what I'm worried about. My career, college, and everything else I have done in my life thus far has been for the benefit of others. I'm going back to college soon, and I won't start a real career until I'm well into my 30s. And again, I still want to get married, and have children. But, I know that won't happen until well after I fully transition.

So yes, I'm not at all excited about my age. 

[Cindy]

Cindy i seem to no matter what make chatty threads i mean i think my one thread made it to 231 posts!!  And all of you are beautiful i dont think i have been wowd this much ever before 

Maybe you are just nice. These sort of boards need people to talk about stuff. If we don't post, it's all over.

Hugs.

Tell us about yourself,

I'm an old bitch, but cute

Cindy

[LilKittyCatZoey]

Thank you.

I know for others who have said age does not matter, in regards to transition. I think that is largely in reference to how you look/ feel as compared to how you used to look/ feel.

This is not what I'm worried about. My career, college, and everything else I have done in my life thus far has been for the benefit of others. I'm going back to college soon, and I won't start a real career until I'm well into my 30s. And again, I still want to get married, and have children. But, I know that won't happen until well after I fully transition.

So yes, I'm not at all excited about my age. 

stop panicing  trust me it will happen but for now just try enjoy life 

Maybe you are just nice. These sort of boards need people to talk about stuff. If we don't post, it's all over.

Hugs.

Tell us about yourself,

I'm an old bitch, but cute

Cindy

i am a young sweetie, but ugly 

[tekla]

It has a bunch of 'reads' but not a ton of replies, yet.

[LilKittyCatZoey]

It has a bunch of 'reads' but not a ton of replies, yet.

Oh well then those who only read know i know they are pretty and feel no reason to post 

[Cindy]

Getting people to talk has always been the problem.

Ask Dave Gilmour and you can find than track quicker than I,
Cindy

[tekla]

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit,

[Cindy]

Talk to me
I saw PF live doing it, I cried.

I have no reason why.
Cindy

[tekla]

I could give you a couple of million reasons why.  And that's just the cost of the production, it's not even arguing about if it's Art.  (It is, that's why it moves people).   I did a couple of summers in the early 90s doing lighting tech work with the Gilmore/Floyd thing.  It was pretty awesome (And not just because it was MILF heaven and all them MILFs were going to do that one bad girl thing they didn't do when they were young - Party with the band!  Yeah, I can get you backstage.  Ask me how. ) - huge.  Beyond huge.  There were two stages, two production companies, two of everything except David.  We'd be doing shows in one city, and the other Group (we called them Group One and Group B - my idea) were setting up in the next city, and when we were done, we'd skip past them - leapfrog - to the next super-huge totally soulless sports area. 

You don't need a reason to be moved by Art, that's what it does.

BTW, out of all the guitar slingers out there David Gilmore is the most unrecognized blues player around.

[justmeinoz]

Seeing as those of us who are older were probably able to pick up a lot from watching our wives, we have got  a bit of a headstart on passing.  Being happy makes you more attractive anyway.
I'm 57 going on 15 and still trying to play loud enough to annoy the neighbours!

Karen.

[Renate]

I don't subscribe to the "Well, you have to learn all the things that you missed in decades of not being female" theory.
There are things that one has to learn, clothes, makeup, hair, etc.
The amount one has to learn is dependent on what kind of women you are.
Some GG's don't know anything about any of these.

I view transition as mostly just dropping all the pretenses of being male.

YMMV.

[AbraCadabra]

Thank you Renate, and please one round of applause for this statement!

Couldn't agree more.

PLEASE, do we want to go from one "prison" right into the next one just called "female expectations"? No way I say.

Again be WHO YOU ARE, and not what OTHERS want you to be.

Um,
Axelle

[kelly_aus]

I don't think age is important at all.. Attitude is more important IMO..

Yes I want to go back to this.
I have not lived as a man for 50 years and then 'decided' to be female. I have been female all my life and am now finally getting the chance to live my life. I never learned how to be a man. I've been a total disaster at it.

Cindy

I tried it for 35 years and, yes, like Cindy, being a man was something I could never do.. I tried, both as a straight guy and a gay guy and both led to complete disasters - where people other than myself ended up quite hurt..

[Nero]

Although some older people can pass just as well as young people in terms of looks, they may not nessasarily have the knowledge and experience of growing up as a girl in order to know how to act like a genetic female socially. If you grew up as a man for a good part of 50 years, I would imagine it will take quite an effort to unlearn habits and to learn things which all genetic women knew froma early age.

I agree it may be a little more difficult for a gal of 50 compared to one with less time invested in the birth gender. However, a girl transitioning at 20 doesn't have that knowledge and experience either. Both have to learn as an adult what other women knew as little girls. Both missed the bulk of socialization. Lifestyle and how committed one was to the birth role matters as well. Probably more than age.

[kate durcal]

Damn straight!!   Take my funfetti num nums and I'll bite your arm off.

(Birdie num num)

Oops!  Brain fart.   But really... it's a complex combination of age and genetics, and probably lots to do with lifestyle.  I may be 33, but I eat well, I exercise, I've never smoked, never drank, never tried a single drug, and I rarely go into the sun without sunblock (and there's a cloud outside that looks like baboon face).  To top it off, all of us on my mom's side look years younger than we are.  Luck and life, that's what it is.  Well, hormones too.

Very incisive post Zoe. I guess we have to define age, and what kind of age.

Chronological age -see your driver license. It only means something when it qualifies you for something

Organ age - how well you organs (liver, kidneys, hart, etc) are performing. This age depends on genetics, life style and chronological age

Mind age - that is how sharp and capable. Usually in direct proportion to continuous education and learning

Kate D