Transitioning later in life.

[Jamie-o]

So, those of you who transitioned later in life, how do you deal with your long past as your birth sex?  I mean, when you are 18 or 20 nobody expects you to have a long resume, for instance.  But when you are older , employers expect to be able to verify several business references.  Are you stuck either informing everyone you ever worked for that you had a sex change?  (That would go down swell with the conservative Mormon family I used to work for.)  Or alternatively, do you wind up having to tell every prospective employer, in your newly acquired deep, rich, manly voice, "But there I was known as 'Lucy'."?

And how about passing pre-T?  At thirty-something I can hardly go around pretending that I just haven't finished puberty yet.  (On the other hand, I was just told the other day that I looked too young to drink, so maybe...)

Any thoughts or experiences you'd like to share?

[J.T.]

i'm younger than you are so i can't really help on the age thing...

but for your resume, you're only supposed to put the last five years or so if i recall correctly.  they don't wanna know every single job you've had.  also i don't think everyone checks references, but i could be wrong.

the good thing is that in this day and age we've got more protection. 

hmm... probably didn't help much but i tried.

[cindybc]

You may just try to see if your previous employers could change you personal information on your papers to the proper gender.

In My case I just went back to school to get into the trade I was pursuing, social worker, and when the time came for me to go full time I just gave all the necessary papers to my supervisor to change my documents to the proper gender.

Cindy