What age did you finally do something about it ?

[Anatta]

Kia Ora,

To carry on from the first poll :
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html

[If you haven't already voted or viewed the above poll/thread, please feel free to participate in both]...

This new poll is for when you first actually spoke to a 'professional' [a gender specialist] about your condition and your desire to transition...For example for me I was in my late teens when I came out to 'myself', but I was in my mid forties before I actually did anything about it, that is, seriously started to get the transition ball rolling, doctors-psyche assessments-counselling, etc...

Thanks for participating in either or both polls/threads...

Metta Zenda

[cynthialee]

I attempted to transition at 22 but the psyrink really messed with my head and filled me full of 'you just have a fetish' crap.

It wasn't until 19 years later I would be able to walk into anouther therapists office and try to start my transition again.

41
I started my transition at 41.
These last 2 years have been the best of my life. Inspite of a heart attack, bypass surgery and being more poor than I have ever been.
The last 2 years I have been ME, and that is worth it all.

[stldrmgrl]

What age did you finally do something about it ?

Late twenties (27).

[Lily]

It was a month before turning 26 that I told someone for the first time. About half a year later I got up the courage to tell my therapist, and a few weeks later I got my hormones.

[Lynne]

Little more than a year ago (I was 25) I started the ball rolling, but after that things slowed down. Last month I made the situation very clear at home about my transition and went to a psychologist and a psychiatrist to get my two letters from them, which I got, so I only have to see a urologist now and I can send my gender and name change request to the government.

[Anatta]

Kia Ora,

According to the poll so far, it would seem the 'mid twenties' is when it got quite  serious for some...

It was about this time [well a little earlier-around 21] when I found it really hard to cope, hence suicide attempts and spending short stints in psyche wards...But I still couldn't tell anyone[psychiatrists] what was really going on inside my head, and they didn't ask any leading questions relating to gender identity...They just prescribed 'Valium' the wonder drug-the magic pill that 'fixed' everything...[Remember this was the early seventies]...

Metta Zenda

[Forever21Chic]

  First time in my late teens came out to my parents at 18 then at 19 started seeing a therapist then hormones etc.

  Second time around at 24. 

 

[supremecatoverlord]

I came out to my parents at age sixteen, though I wasn't able to start hormones before my eighteenth birthday. :3

[Tristan]

i started at 14. it did not go so well at first with my parents. but after my sister got prego and dropped out of college they let up off me a lot.

[michelle666]

I attempted to transition in my early 20's, I had long hair, wore makeup and mostly female clothes, I got beat up really bad and it put a huge scare into me and I stopped. I'm now 41 and am starting again.