As a child, was there someone trans you would have like to talk to?

bluepaint · October 28, 2016, 08:58:21 PM

when you were younger, pre transition, (knowing how you felt) was there a particular person (celebrity ect..) you would have liked to have had chance to talk with about it?

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HappyMoni · October 28, 2016, 10:21:30 PM

It wouldn't be a celebrity. As my younger, pretransition me, I would want to talk to post transition me. That way I would have heard that it was useless to fight it as long as I did. I would know that most of my fears were baseless. I would know how good it could be.
Monica

bluepaint · October 28, 2016, 10:51:27 PM

🙂 nice ! yes it would have been something to be comforted by knowing the futur outcome of things in that way! imaging the stresses we could have avoided!
My idea for creating this thread came when I was posting in another thread and it reminded me of when I was 12 years old, knowing I was "different", I felt alone knowing that I couldn't speak openly to my family or friends then, just by a fluke, I read about a musician named "Wendy Carlos" and how she had transitioned from MtF and in my "innocent naïvety" tried writing to her by way of the newspaper article just to say that "I felt like girl too!" of course today I know it was a young child's hope and Its no surprised that nothing came if it but it still remains something that always stayed with me! what if?

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Jacqueline · October 29, 2016, 02:31:25 AM

June of 2015 there was this interesting topic of going back and meeting yourself as a child and what would you say. Sort of the opposite of your thread.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,194196.0.html

Hope it's not too far off subject.

With warmth,

Joanna

kathb31 · October 29, 2016, 05:00:52 PM

When I was young .. eons ago .. I desperately searched for anyone or anything
I could connect to .. Identify with. I knew of Christine J, as my father (a biology teacher)
actually told me (in intimate detail) about her story, but this was distant and didn't really
help me. I used to watch the "Get Smart" show and anxiously hoping to see the
secret agent character who was a man disguised as a woman. One of the reasons
I did not transition as a teenager was because I could not find any mentors or
guides who could help me.

KathyLauren · October 30, 2016, 10:14:41 AM

I wish I had had someone, anyone, who could have told my younger self who I was. I would not have had to be a celebrity, or even someone trans, just someone sympathetic with an open mind about gender issues. Someone who could have told me that it was okay to want to be a girl, that it was okay to cross-dress, and that I wasn't some kind of pervert.

Because I had no idea, I buried all that deeply. *sigh*

But I'm feeling much better now! 🙂

bluepaint · October 30, 2016, 04:03:34 PM

its really great to know that children have examples in the media , Jazz Jennings ect... and with lots of information on the internet as well. The first trans woman I knew of was Tula! It all seemed like magic when a child since it wasn't in everyday tv or news. how I prayed and wished for some magical intervention thinking then that it was the only way it could ever be for me!

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Sno · October 30, 2016, 04:23:46 PM

In many ways, I would love to be able to talk to my child self, but I'm not sure what I would say.

What would have helped enormously, would have been, someone to spot my struggles. There were so many taboos and boundaries around any kind of nonconformity, that it would have been lovely to have had someone say it's ok, and I suspect that you may have some gender challenges.

It would also have been nice for more of this information to be available.

Sno.

Kensi · October 30, 2016, 04:30:51 PM

As a child if would have been totally awesome to talk to someone trans! But also right now.. That is the reason behind me joining. A celebrity no though.. A regular person. I might have gotten the guts to talk about my wants and/or needs way sooner. As I have noticed a lot, many of us thought we were the only ones with these feelings. Hell I didn't even know about HRT until about three years ago. I new about trans however always thought it was all plastic surgery. I even thought by searching for information, I was being watched right after hitting the enter key...