The age gap between FtMs and the MtFs.

[Jeannette]

I'm 26 & had GRS last year.

[Valentina]

27 year old gal here.  Dr. Sanguan's graduate

[Walter]

Well Well look what the wind blew in! Where you been lil' bro?
Kick the dust off your boots and set a spell. 

^__^ This made me smile. Yeah..been going through some weird phases. Haven't been on Susans much but am now returning :3

[Linus]

I apparently can not read. I voted wrong I am  FTM 40. I noticed at a group meeting I go to i am definitely on the older end of things. There are usually 3-4 of us that are older, most of the crowd is in thier 20's some younger.
Myles

I'm like Myles. I'm one of the older guys in a group of younger ones. And to be honest, I don't think it was only because FTMs were given more opportunity to do so because of Feminism as to why they are younger. Someone made an interesting comment to me when I began my transition: where are all the butches gone? And honestly, it's a valid comment and an interesting one. Does that mean that all young FTMs are butches? Not necessarily but it may be interesting to see if the recidivism increases in the next few years for FTMs.  But I do think that now that FTMs can be seen with any sexual orientation and not just dating women (I, myself, prefer queer women, whether MTF, cisgendered or otherwise) that we're seeing a few more of the younger guys appear. It's acceptable for them to finally express themselves as themselves rather than being a "pretend woman" (that's how I saw myself for 37 years -- a pretend woman).

I think that some of it also has to do with society's play on privilege. Man are discouraged from giving it up and women are encouraged to grab it where possible. So when "women become men"  that means they want privilege and that, to mainstream society, makes sense. But, when "men become women".. WELL! they must be nuts because who'd want to give up privilege!?

I also suspect that there are more resources for younger FTMs than there was 10, 20 years ago. When people hear transsexual they hear MTF. It's only in the last few years (thanks to Thomas Beattie and Chaz Bono) that they also hear FTM.  Times are changing and as transsexual becomes more apparent and ok to talk about in society I think we'll see more and more "out" trans and less stealth trans. This will mean higher numbers across the age spectrum, I suspect.

Anyways, enough rambling for one morning.

[xsocialworker]

In 1950, I knew I was born in the wrong gender. When Christine Jorgenson was in the news, I could not see how I could do the same thing. I was only 10 and living in a medium size provincial city. I went to a very liberal university and had a Mick Jagger hair-cut and wore women's clothes except for skirts and dresses. As long as one was hetero, this type of presentation was just "rock star wannabe". Like "rock stars' often do, I got married and tried to be at least as normal as David Bowie claimed to be. I worked for an employer who tolerated a "rock star "look as long as one didn't expect any serious promotions. Then the organization found a "City Manager" with bell bottom suits and dredlocks and us androgynous people were in hog heaven.

However, the strain of just being close to the prize, but never quite there got really tiring ( you can look at the water, but you just can't swim) so I transitioned completely 10 years ago while in my fifties.


Anybody still awake?

[Chloe]

Whereas the MtFs on this site are all older people with a few exceptions.

I voted to help confirm your suspicions,

but it just did not work,

what (by-the-way) is your idea of "old/young"?