Transitioning during high school?

[Aaron]

Hi guys its me aaron again 

Well anyway recently ive been getting this feeling where I really want to come out and live as a boy. But this is a problem because im in year 9 and still go to school and such.
But I was just wondering what you guys think would be a good idea because my mum and this therapist think that I should keep my head down till im out of school and then transition. But ive got to a point where im really comfortable with myself and i am suddenly getting this urge to live as a boy. I know this would be hard because i would have to tell family and friends etc., get people to call me a new name, but at the same time it just seems to get harder each day to live as a girl

If i did get the courage to ask my mum I would want to move school and start over again at a new school as a boy. But then id have to find another school close to my home and such. Also if i did pass at this school would people not start asking questions when I didnt hit puberty or do P.E?
I mean teenagers in general are nosey including me

Also, i have to go see this childs doctor because im a teenager now and i weigh 8 stone and havent started my period yet. I mean some people dont start till later on but this doctor wants to check that i have ovaries and such. I mean it would be awesome if i didnt have them. But i feel like if i find out i do have ovaries and will start my period one day i will be even more upset. Yeah confusing times

Sorry for rambling on I just didnt know where else to go and who else to ask for advice. If anyone has advice to give or they have actually transitioned during secondary school just right me a lil bit about what it was like and how you did it. Im not expecting a massive piece of writing!!! 

[Felix]

Pages 10 to 21 of the WPATH standards of care discuss treatment of gender issues in children and adolescents. You should get your doctor to look at it. It's not like anything in it is carved in stone, but it's a respectable place to start.

http://www.wpath.org/publications_standards.cfm

[supremecatoverlord]

You are very lucky that you can transition before eighteen where you live if you choose to do so.
I couldn't begin transitioning until I turned eighteen, because those are the laws for HRT in my state.

[Kyle-Len]

Well, I haven't posted yet, but transitioning in upper school being my area of expertise at the moment, I feel like I should share what I've learned.  I tried to wait it out until I finished school and moved on to college, but as *I* had already accepted myself and admitted my translyness it became imposible to pretend to be a girl anymore.  So I came out the summer before 11th grade and basically said I wasn't going back to school unless I went back as the man I was.  I haven't started HRT, yet but I'm on the path, so my transition is just social for now.  I didn't switch schools, I went back to the same school so I don't know much about the questions you might get if you pass at new school.  I just went and told the administration I was coming back as a male student and expected to be treated as such.  They told the rest of the faculty and I delt with letting the students know through the grape vine.  I got excused from PE by a letter from my therapist, so thats an option.  I started my transition as early as I could mangage but I still missed out on far too much.  Beign able to be myself made me more confident and happier.  If you feel its safe to begin your transition I say go for it man!  You'll be happier, at least I know I was.  Good luck. ^_^

[mm]

Tranisitoning in high school must to hard, do you have friends who understand?  Are you on blockers?  I am in college.

[anibioman]

hi Aaron this is a bit late to be posting you should try to get on blockers as soon as possible as puberty is a bitch and if i got on blockers even just a year ago i would be so much happier now (the hips came in rather recently). also if your really short you could be a turner female (but a boy) as in you just have an X that would explain the lack of periods. transitioning for me in high school has been ok some of my teachers where bitches the only ones who gave me trouble where the lady teachers. all the kids have been good no one except for some ass hole self loathing kids 2 years younger then me gave me trouble. it did take a while for kids to start calling me Parker and most kids use female pronouns to this day but only because they are ignorent and i dont have the energy to educate the masses.

by the way its been a year since i came out at school.

[Morgan.]

Hi Aaron - where abouts do you live? By the sounds of you saying you're in year 9, are you from Australia?
If you are, I might be able to help you by suggesting a list of medical professionals/psychologists/psychiatrists within Australia that are experienced with treating trans people. Through the list I was able to find a psychologist and a GP and within a short time I started T.

And, if you're from out of Aus, well.. perhaps looking for a psychologist or psychiatrist to see, or even talking to a GP that you trust would be a good start to getting where you feel you'd like to start.

[Dante]

I'm a Junior in high school, and I have decided not to try and transition right now, even though I want to. In fact, the other day, a favorite teacher of mine asked if I wanted to be called by a different name (my friends have been calling me Dante), and I had to say no, and explain that I don't want to make people ask strange questions and all that. I know it sucks, but I think trying to transition in high school would be very difficult to pull off.

But that's just my opinion. I'm just trying not to make my school life unnecessarily complicated.