Age you realised

[Lee]

I've had a constant "Something's not right" feeling since somewhere in my early teens.  It has been becoming more concrete over time, but I didn't pin down that I am trans until last year (age 23).  I knew that I hated my chest, and randomly wrapped it all flat.  I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen, but I'm sure it wasn't the "Oh my god, that's it!" reaction that I had.    It's good to know that I wasn't the only one who had this impression that trans people were guys in dresses.  All I have to say is thank god for the internet.

[ColourMeQueer]

I'm not sure. As far as I remember I've always considered myself male, despite what people have told me. A very young age, I would say is how old I realized. Now, accepting it took longer considering I live in a very homphobic and transphobic town. To be honest, I realized when I was very young, yet only recently have I accepted it. I didn't even know what a transgender was until I was about thirteen. I confused my gender identity with my sexualiity for a long while, too. But now I know both and I'm okay about it.

[Aussie Jay]

From the first memories I have maybe as early as 3 - I always thought I was a boy.

I can remember being 5 and asking to be called a boy's name and asking for a "sex change" from Santa for Xmas.

I repressed the feelings for many years lived as best I could as a masculine "woman" always, always being "mistaken" for a man but trying to forget the feelings.

Then at 24 I really looked into the possibility of medical transition after seeing something on youtube - then there was no stopping me.

I would finally start to go through the right puberty at 25 after I came out to myself and just about everyone I knew.

[bojangles]

Out of the gate, I guess. Asked nurse for a shot to turn me into a boy at age 5 or 6. In the 60's, this request would get you a motherly smile because "kid's say the darnedest things."
Had no idea there were FTMs until Chaz Bono decided to transition, lots of years later. Yay, Chaz. Thank you.

[Wolf Man]

17/18. It was in the month of my birthday.

Unnecessary details to follow. It wasn't until I had gone through puberty that things had become weird. I still, however, identified as a lesbian from then until this age. All the while claiming that I was just a man because girls never really made sense to me. I had also been thoroughly thrilled at how people would assume I was a boy when I had gotten a short haircut at about 11. Later on in life I was also usually taken for male, despite apparent small breasts and long hair. I continued to appreciate this and it would make me feel comfortable up until someone corrected them. Then there had been the issues around the feminine sort of things: clothes, hair both head and body, all which I avoided like the plague. I said "Screw that stuff." And went on with life. Etcetera, etcetera.

[Battle_On]

I have felt off and can remember wondering why I wasn't a boy (and wishing I was one) since about puberty*, but I had a very sheltered childhood so it wasnt until I was 17/18 that I learned such thing as transgender existed. Right before I turned 19 I realised all the things I had been reading and researching applied to me.

*I remember logically understanding why I was going through female puberty (I got the biology of it), but not understanding why it was happeneing to me.

[xAndrewx]

Realized I was a boy- 7 is my earliest memory of that but I don't remember much of anything before that age

Realized I could transition and identified as a trans male- somewhere between end of being 14 and turning 15

[Wolf]

This is exactly me.  Exactly.

This is me but change ages around a bit. I always knew, thought I'd have to deal with it. Younger, I had no idea anything could be done, a bit older I thought results can't be that good, then maybe I knew about it but... Thought it would be like hiding under another mask... And then at 17 I was like WAIT T CAN DO THAT? I had no idea what a transsexual was until I was 17 though. I agree that education on this stuff should... Happen... But obviously that won't happen 

[Animosity]

I sorta knew when I was a little kid, to an extent. When I was eight I told my mom I wanted to be a boy. She mentioned that people could get sex changes, and I just said, "NO! I want to have been born as a boy. Otherwise it's just weird." Honestly, the only reason I thought it was "weird" was because I knew I'd get mocked if I said I wanted to become a guy. And I was right, what do you know. Besides, for years I barely even knew FtMs existed.

I dreaded puberty for years. Once I actually started going through puberty, I hated everything about it, and then I REALLY wished I was a guy. I told my parents about it, and they said it was just a phase and that I'd get through it eventually. What a load of BS. From then on it only got worse.

The end of middle school was the most painful, confusing time of my life (I was around thirteen years old then). I started to despise my body even more, and I couldn't stand being a physically weak girl. To compensate for it, I became extremely violent and uncontrollably angry all the time. I wanted to be a man but I couldn't bring myself to admit it.

TL;DR: I guess I always knew to an extent, but didn't admit it until I was fourteen. That's when I stumbled across a webcomic with a transman in it, and I realized how much I could relate to him and it just carried on from there.

[ajayjo]

when i was around 3 or 4. i was felt something wrong with me and my mom gave me dolls but i refused it because thats not me...until 17 i started to realize that im being guy. thats how i knew

[straightedgechris]

I was 4 when I knew I was supposed to have been born a boy.

[Alex37]

I always knew something was off, but I didn't know what.  I attributed it solely to my dysfunctional family for a while.  Then I began to deal with the family stuff, and realized that dealing with those issues wasn't fixing the most painful things... and through the self exploration brought on by dealing with my family I began to realize that my gender identity/ expression were the real problems. 

I probably would have figured it out sooner than my early 20s if I had known that trans men existed.  Until last November, I was under the impression that mtfs, cross dressers, and ->-bleeped-<-s were the same thing, and sometimes really butch lesbians got mastectomies and took hormones.   As Lee said, thank god for the internet. 

[robokot]

Probably during puberty,  I wanted people to see me as male since I was like 10.
... But I don't really think you can know as child if you are trans, I went through so many different stages in my childhood, grown out of a lot of things, I can certainly imagine my life going different ways and me ending up being happy cisgender woman, but at 25 my personality is pretty much fixed for life and I still want to be seen as male and I'm still feeling uncomfortable with my female body so yeah, you might say I finally realised at 25.

[Jamie10011]

Officially realised- 13. But I knew something was diffrent long before that, I remember I wrote my 'what i want to be when i grow up' story when I was 6, and I said i wanted to be a boy, but I never handed it in,I think I've still got it somewhere tbh....

[jmaxley]

Realized when I was 24.  I might've realized something was wrong sooner, except that I thought it was normal for females to hate being female.

[Sea-Sam]

I've always felt like something was a bit off.
Didn't figure out what until about a year ago, and some time before that I was just really confused about it.  I used to think that maybe I had two different personalities. One gay boy and the other a boyish girl.  That wasn't it. xD

[Envy]

When I was 4, I knew I was supposed to be a boy,
but I didn't really fully understand what was going on until I was 14/15/going through puberty

[Alex37]

Realized when I was 24.  I might've realized something was wrong sooner, except that I thought it was normal for females to hate being female.

i already posted, but yes, this! 

when i first heard that feminist don't actually want to be boys, i just ignored it because i didn't know what to do with that information. 

then i figured out that feminists (who are girls)  like being girls 

and that boys and girls aren't exactly the same... and i'm not a girl.  i'm a bit slow sometimes 

[Dante]

I started to realize around 10.

[ajborelli]

i was 16 when i completely realized what was happening.