What age did you become aware that transition was physically possible?

[Nero]

Hey guys and dolls,

This poll is to get an idea of what ages people were aware of transition from the birth sex to their target sex being physically possible. It's not about what age you knew you were transsexual or what age you transitioned, but what age you knew it was possible to transition.
Poll is for ages 18 and up.

Elaboration encouraged.
Thanks.

[Lachlann]

When I was 15. Oprah show.

[V M]

The subject started coming up in elementary school. I didn't believe it was possible until later though 

[LordKAT]

I was like 25 to 27. I had 4 kids by then and no cash and no "self". I had just gotten my first computer for home and dial up internet. The fact that I could transition saved my life then and gave me hope during the long wait for my children to be adults. Oh to have had my children be safe and transition earlier but that was not to be and now I want it all right now.

[Chamillion]

I was 17 when I realized transition was possible.  I had heard the term transgender before but didn't really understand what it meant, and definitely didn't think it was possible to go from female to male.  I found out by meeting one of my girlfriend's friends and after he left she told me that he was born a girl, which completely fascinated me and I started researching.  I'm 19 now

[Flan]

i don't remember exactly when but it was around my first psych exam for gender issues about 10 years ago when for a moment, i really got deep into the info (then proceeded to try and sweep my issues under the rug...  )

before that it was from trash tv and radio that i got "info"

[Calistine]

When I was 9 my teacher told us it was possible. But she told us it was something we had to be commited to.

[noxdraconis]

I was 14.  I saw a two-part series late at night on the Discovery Channel, one on MTFs and the other on FTMs.  When I saw the results of the guy who had top sugery done I almost cried upon realizing that something like that was possible. 

[lpfix2009]

I knew I could transition at 8 years old but couldn't do anything about it because I thought my parents wouldnt accept me and kept it away till 12-13 from them but really gave her by 17

[Myself]

I think it was at age 18, nearing 19 and I ran for it as fast as I could, started at 19.
Then had an unwanted stop of estrogens, still had antiandrogens, until age 20 and a half or so.

Now I am back completely about 2 months since re-start of estrogenn!

[myles]

Not until age 25 which was 15 years ago. Small town and I am just old I guess. Internet sure has made a difference in the  world.
Cheers,
Myles

[Christo]

Hey guys and dolls,

This poll is to get an idea of what ages people were aware of transition from the birth sex to their target sex being physically possible. It's not about what age you knew you were transsexual or what age you transitioned, but what age you knew it was possible to transition.
Poll is for ages 18 and up.

Elaboration encouraged.
Thanks.

age 18-24 (I am currently age 25-34) 

[Teknoir]

Found out about MTF when i was really young, assumed one could also go the other way.

Found that it wasn't as easy to go the other way when I was 15, and discounted it because I was convinced I was too short to ever make a convincing man (or so other people kept telling me).

</Face palm>

Was looking at it now and then (when times got rough and I couldn't adapt to birth sex) until I was 25 going "Nah, surely not! That seriously can't be my problem..... can I really do that?"

Here I am, 25 and height be damned

[Inphyy]

Bummer, I'm still a teen so I can't vote! 

Oh well...I figured out about it at age 11, I don't know how--It just came inside my mind. Hard to explain...

[sd]

Sometimes in my teens is all I know (I'm currently in my 30's).

[Nero]

Okay, I feel officially stupid now.  I knew about Mtfs (but thought they were a type of extreme drag queen) but never made the connection that one could go from physically female to physically male (or at least develop the secondary sex characteristics of a male). I didn't have any frame of reference really. I seriously thought I was the only male alive born this way. Made me feel kind of special actually. I had this dark secret that made me feel like a lovely and tragic mythical beast. 
I did look into breast reductions, but they wouldn't do one flat enough for my taste. (I didn't want them smaller, I wanted them gone.)

When I was 27, I got clean and was spending a  lot of recovery time reading when I came across a passing reference to 'gender identity disorder' and instantly knew that was me. I looked up, then got online and learned about transition and the rest is history.

God, it just never clicked. I mean there were butch dykes around but I knew I wasn't one of them and the mtfs around town didn't blend in, so I had no clue about medical intervention.
Wow. 

[V M]

So, when do we get to see the stat.s (results of the survey)? 

[Arch]

I knew about MTFs long before I knew about FTMs. I'm assuming that you want to know when we found out that transition was physically possible for ourselves? 'Cause that's how I answered. I was twenty-five or twenty-six when I found out that there was such a thing as an FTM transsexual. I was so excited...

...and scared...

...that I couldn't deal with it and promptly became a cross dresser.

[Northern Jane]

I heard about Christine Jorgensen when I was in my early teens (around 1962) and found out where surgery was being done and the cost but the cost was like $25,000 U.S. which was about 3 years total income for a tradesman (my father) so it was out of the question. Nobody would ever help me with that kind of cost.

I didn't know how but I knew I needed to have surgery or I wouldn't survive so I started working at 13 and saved everything I could. I tried to get in to the Clarke Institute, Johns Hopkins, and any place doing "studies" but couldn't get in. In 1973 I heard about Dr. Biber's new practice and was GONE in a couple of months.

[sneakersjay]

I never even knew you could transition from female to male - never heard of such a thing!  TV and the media seemed to only mention MTFs.  I started to figure stuff out (ie realizing transition was possible) the few months before Thomas Beattie became news.  And before then I'd only managed to find pics of pre-transition transguys.

Once I knew transition was possible, I still had no idea what that entailed, and figured I'd end up looking like a butch hairy woman.  No thanks!  Then I met a guy who transitioned 8 yrs ago.  WHOA!

And I jumped right off that cliff ASAP.


Jay