Senior M2F Transgender People

[LizK]

I'm the baby at 53...wow there are not too many places I can say that. LOL I started 8 months ago and from what I can tell patience is part of the key, as things take a little longer to get going, but they do get going, I am already at the stage where I confuse the hell out of people, I apparently look female from behind but not so much when you arrive around the other side LOL. Really though the best of it for me is the sense of finally feeling more like me!!

Hope we are all having a good day today

Hugs
Liz

[Janes Groove]

I'm 58 and started HRT 8 months ago.  It's been a wonderful experience both mental and physical. I'm so glad for this thread. It gave me a reason to measure myself today. I am now a full B cup.  35" band size. 37" bust size.  I must say that I am to the point now where I notice them a lot more when I move around during the day and when I sleep at night. It's a lovely feeling.

[JeanetteLW]

I'm 58 and started HRT 8 months ago.  It's been a wonderful experience both mental and physical. I'm so glad for this thread. It gave me a reason to measure myself today. I am now a full B cup.  35" band size. 37" bust size.  I must say that I am to the point now where I notice them a lot more when I move around during the day and when I sleep at night. It's a lovely feeling.

Hi Jane,

    I'm not sure if I should be happy for you or just turn green with envy. Oh okay I'll do both. I am happy for your progress in so short a time. (I'm sure it doesn't seem short but according to stuff I have read it is fairly short) YMMV be damned .
   I'm envious of your dimensions too. Having only been on hrt for under 8 weeks, I can't boast about mine at all. Yes I've measure wistfully only to get 41" band an maybe a 41 1/2" bust, alas the cup of A is still lacking fulfillment. Mine have been a bit sore and there is something growing in there beside the fat accumulation.
   Did yours do that "Budding" thing? I think that is sooo cool! I hope mine do so soon, though it will make concealment harder.
   Anyway happy happy joy joy for you.

Jeanette

[KathyLauren]

I am 62 and just started HRT last week.  It seems to be a pretty common pattern for us "seniors" to finally figure it all out.  At least it makes coming out at work (I'm retired) or to parents (both passed on) less of an issue.

For someone just starting transition, it is nice to hear the positive results from others.  I'd be ecstatic if I grew to a B cup.

[Janes Groove]

I started noticing changes after just a couple of weeks (I couldn't run without a bra. They were too sensitive.) and breast buds formed early.  I swear. It was like miracle-gro.  And the girls are far from done yet.  They still get sore. No as much as much a before tho.
But I suspected it would be the case even before I started HRT (I come from a long line of Irish milk maids, i.e. all the females in my family are all large-breasted.)  Before I started HRT I was actually afraid of what would happen if I began to show.  I even did internet searches for how to hide them like buying special T-shirts on Amazon or wearing tight sports bras.  Wow was I off!  After I started to develop? Maybe it was the mental changes that estrogen produces, but I found myself just wanting to show them off with flattering clothes.  I must say I make some people uptight tho. I'm so wicked. I never wear a bra.

[JeanetteLW]

Maybe it was the mental changes that estrogen produces, but I found myself just wanting to show them off with flattering clothes.  I must say I make some people uptight tho. I'm so wicked. I never wear a bra.

You're such a hussy Jane. But hey I guess, "If you got em flaunt them"

I've done some looking at them tight garments to conceal mine too. I may not have much yet after 7 weeks, But I can see them there. (But then I know where to look)

[Tessa James]

Maybe it was the mental changes that estrogen produces, but I found myself just wanting to show them off with flattering clothes.  I must say I make some people uptight tho. I'm so wicked. I never wear a bra.

I am often in that bra free camp too.  Bras in my size are difficult to find and at about a B cup my girls really don't need support.  It would probably take a fire or tsunami to get me running.  I was so very happy to finally need a bra but now I like the freedom of going without.  I get the wicked part too, and the lookie Lous just make me smile all the more.  Women have been wearing what they like long before we got here.

I dress to feel and look good for myself, for the most part, and not looking for a date anyway.

At least it makes coming out at work (I'm retired) or to parents (both passed on) less of an issue.

I cannot really estimate how important those factors were for me in coming out transgender.  I am certain that being retired and having my parents gone did make it much easier to transition.  I tried a transition in the early 90s and could find no professional help.  I was also in an anesthesia practice with not infrequent call rooms, locker rooms and sensitive situations I shared with unsupportive peers.  I could hardly imagine it working out then.

As a senior I have felt far less vulnerable than many of the young people I know and read about.  No boss and no authority figure of any significance to stand in my way.  I pushed back on the medical gatekeepers and won.  My children are grown and independent.  A long term and supportive spouse with years of working out the kinks.  I felt almost bullet proof before I got groped. Age does have it's rewards!!

[JeanetteLW]

  I felt almost bullet proof before I got groped. Age does have it's rewards!!

   You made me laugh again with that line, Tessa.   I'll have you know I am getting groped daily. But, alas the hands are mine. I just can't leave these growing puppies alone.

  Jeanette

[Tessa James]

   You made me laugh again with that line, Tessa.   I'll have you know I am getting groped daily. But, alas the hands are mine. I just can't leave these growing puppies alone.

  Jeanette

I recall a number of advocates writing here at the Place about how breast massage improved well being and promoted growth.  A daily practice and admonition that takes no encouragement at all.  My favorite exercise and a sweet sense of validation that I am real.

[JeanetteLW]

True  so true Tessa. Thanks for the endorsement and your permission to continue.

I need to discover a way to like or thumbs up a post  other than making a formal reply.

[Tessa James]

True  so true Tessa. Thanks for the endorsement and your permission to continue.

I need to discover a way to like or thumbs up a post  other than making a formal reply.

Not fishing for it, but there are those little green up and red down thumbs buttons just blow our avatar.  Hit one and we are then lead to offer an explanation.  I think most of us use the smite or red thumbs down button sparingly and for really serious breaches of the peace    We won't see those thumbs on our own account so we don't just devolve into more self gratification;)

[JeanetteLW]

   You are referring to the rep points I believe and I did read the rules governing their use. The ones I see are just black numbers and no green or red thumbs at all. Don't recall in my reading if that functionality comes with time or posting  restrictions. If so I would be too new for them. I'm still a newbie at everything (except for hiding myself).
   I'll have to do some more homework.  But I was looking more for something more in the lines of just and affirmation of a post or to indicate a liking for it. The rep thing I took more as something to shower praise for exceptional help to users or the site.

  Jeanette

[LizK]

   You are referring to the rep points I believe and I did read the rules governing their use. The ones I see are just black numbers and no green or red thumbs at all. Don't recall in my reading if that functionality comes with time or posting  restrictions. If so I would be too new for them. I'm still a newbie at everything (except for hiding myself).
   I'll have to do some more homework.  But I was looking more for something more in the lines of just and affirmation of a post or to indicate a liking for it. The rep thing I took more as something to shower praise for exceptional help to users or the site.

  Jeanette

Jeanette you should have the symbols as described and these will assign the rep points. Let me report this and have a look at why you can't give rep points.

Liz

[Cindy]

   You are referring to the rep points I believe and I did read the rules governing their use. The ones I see are just black numbers and no green or red thumbs at all. Don't recall in my reading if that functionality comes with time or posting  restrictions. If so I would be too new for them. I'm still a newbie at everything (except for hiding myself).
   I'll have to do some more homework.  But I was looking more for something more in the lines of just and affirmation of a post or to indicate a liking for it. The rep thing I took more as something to shower praise for exceptional help to users or the site.

  Jeanette

Jeanette you should have the symbols as described and these will assign the rep points. Let me report this and have a look at why you can't give rep points.

Liz

Fixed

[JeanetteLW]

Jeanette you should have the symbols as described and these will assign the rep points. Let me report this and have a look at why you can't give rep points.

Liz



Fixed

I'm sorry for hijacking this thread  over a relatively small issue but I didn't know how else to reply. (see previous newbie references)

  Perhaps I am not looking in the right places to see these red and green thumbs. I still do not see them under the poster's avatar. I even cleared my browser's cache.

   Jeanette

[AshleyP]

  Perhaps I am not looking in the right places to see these red and green thumbs. I still do not see them under the poster's avatar. I even cleared my browser's cache.

I'm not a site admin or anything. Here's a link to the Reputation policy:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,18960.0.html

The Note says that you need to have 50 posts for the option to be available. Maybe that's it?

All the best,
--AshleyP

[JeanetteLW]

Thank you for the link. It was my thought to that I was too new yet to do the rep thing.  I'm getting there

[Dena]

I was about to post the same information. Somewhere in the site, I am not sure where I saw it but there was a period of time where people were giving them out like candy. The limits were changed so people would have time to learn what a good post should look like and only reward those who produced outstanding posts.

If you tend to work with new members, you will find you earn fewer reputation points because they are unable to reward you. More senior members can reward you but because of their experience, it takes something they haven't already seen on the site.

[JeanetteLW]

   You are referring to the rep points I believe and I did read the rules governing their use. The ones I see are just black numbers and no green or red thumbs at all. Don't recall in my reading if that functionality comes with time or posting  restrictions. If so I would be too new for them. I'm still a newbie at everything (except for hiding myself).
   I'll have to do some more homework. 

  Jeanette

      I knew I had thought it may have had it restrictions. I just hadn't found the link back to the info so I could reread it.

    Thank you all for the help. And thank you AshleyP for the link.

   As they say the mind is the 2nd thing to go when you get old. (can't remember the first)

   Jeanette