Different paths
http://tgnotwhatyouthink.blogspot.com/2009/06/different-paths.html6/15/09
I wrote to tell him that I have known at least two, but it's true that the paths of trans men and trans women tend to be very different. I was talking about that with Sweetie last night. Like Chaz Bono, it seems that most trans men were lesbians before they came out as trans. I don't know the statistics, but it seems like the usual progression: hetero woman, lesbian, trans man. Obviously, most lesbians, however butch, remain women and lesbians, but trans men seem very often to come up through those ranks.
You don't see the same thing among trans women. Those who transition young have usually never been sexual involved with anyone, male or female. They become sexually involved, usually with men, after transition. Those who transition when older seem most often to have tried to be heterosexual men, and that means a wife and sometimes kids. There is usually no phase of being gay before coming out as trans.
