Community Conversation => Transitioning => Topic started by: Anatta on December 16, 2011, 06:02:42 PM Return to Full Version
Title: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Anatta on December 16, 2011, 06:02:42 PM
Post by: Anatta on December 16, 2011, 06:02:42 PM
Kia Ora,
::) To carry on from the first poll :
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html)
[If you haven't already voted or viewed the above poll/thread, please feel free to participate in both]...
::) This new poll is for when you first actually spoke to a 'professional' [a gender specialist] about your condition and your desire to transition...For example for me I was in my late teens when I came out to 'myself', but I was in my mid forties before I actually did anything about it, that is, seriously started to get the transition ball rolling, doctors-psyche assessments-counselling, etc...
::) Thanks for participating in either or both polls/threads...
Metta Zenda :)
::) To carry on from the first poll :
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html)
[If you haven't already voted or viewed the above poll/thread, please feel free to participate in both]...
::) This new poll is for when you first actually spoke to a 'professional' [a gender specialist] about your condition and your desire to transition...For example for me I was in my late teens when I came out to 'myself', but I was in my mid forties before I actually did anything about it, that is, seriously started to get the transition ball rolling, doctors-psyche assessments-counselling, etc...
::) Thanks for participating in either or both polls/threads...
Metta Zenda :)
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: cynthialee on December 16, 2011, 06:19:19 PM
Post by: cynthialee on December 16, 2011, 06:19:19 PM
I attempted to transition at 22 but the psyrink really messed with my head and filled me full of 'you just have a fetish' crap.
It wasn't until 19 years later I would be able to walk into anouther therapists office and try to start my transition again.
41
I started my transition at 41.
These last 2 years have been the best of my life. Inspite of a heart attack, bypass surgery and being more poor than I have ever been.
The last 2 years I have been ME, and that is worth it all.
It wasn't until 19 years later I would be able to walk into anouther therapists office and try to start my transition again.
41
I started my transition at 41.
These last 2 years have been the best of my life. Inspite of a heart attack, bypass surgery and being more poor than I have ever been.
The last 2 years I have been ME, and that is worth it all.
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: stldrmgrl on December 16, 2011, 10:26:49 PM
Post by: stldrmgrl on December 16, 2011, 10:26:49 PM
QuoteWhat age did you finally do something about it ?
Late twenties (27).
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Lily on December 16, 2011, 10:59:38 PM
Post by: Lily on December 16, 2011, 10:59:38 PM
It was a month before turning 26 that I told someone for the first time. About half a year later I got up the courage to tell my therapist, and a few weeks later I got my hormones. :)
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Lynne on December 17, 2011, 05:05:48 AM
Post by: Lynne on December 17, 2011, 05:05:48 AM
Little more than a year ago (I was 25) I started the ball rolling, but after that things slowed down. Last month I made the situation very clear at home about my transition and went to a psychologist and a psychiatrist to get my two letters from them, which I got, so I only have to see a urologist now and I can send my gender and name change request to the government.
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Anatta on December 17, 2011, 03:30:25 PM
Post by: Anatta on December 17, 2011, 03:30:25 PM
Kia Ora,
::) According to the poll so far, it would seem the 'mid twenties' is when it got quite serious for some...
::) It was about this time [well a little earlier-around 21] when I found it really hard to cope, hence suicide attempts and spending short stints in psyche wards...But I still couldn't tell anyone[psychiatrists] what was really going on inside my head, and they didn't ask any leading questions relating to gender identity...They just prescribed 'Valium' the wonder drug-the magic pill that 'fixed' everything...[Remember this was the early seventies]...
Metta Zenda :)
::) According to the poll so far, it would seem the 'mid twenties' is when it got quite serious for some...
::) It was about this time [well a little earlier-around 21] when I found it really hard to cope, hence suicide attempts and spending short stints in psyche wards...But I still couldn't tell anyone[psychiatrists] what was really going on inside my head, and they didn't ask any leading questions relating to gender identity...They just prescribed 'Valium' the wonder drug-the magic pill that 'fixed' everything...[Remember this was the early seventies]...
Metta Zenda :)
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Forever21Chic on December 17, 2011, 04:45:18 PM
Post by: Forever21Chic on December 17, 2011, 04:45:18 PM
First time in my late teens came out to my parents at 18 then at 19 started seeing a therapist then hormones etc.
Second time around at 24. :(
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: supremecatoverlord on December 17, 2011, 04:49:00 PM
Post by: supremecatoverlord on December 17, 2011, 04:49:00 PM
I came out to my parents at age sixteen, though I wasn't able to start hormones before my eighteenth birthday. :3
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: Tristan on December 18, 2011, 12:13:39 PM
Post by: Tristan on December 18, 2011, 12:13:39 PM
i started at 14. it did not go so well at first with my parents. but after my sister got prego and dropped out of college they let up off me a lot.
Title: Re: What age did you finally do something about it ?
Post by: michelle666 on December 18, 2011, 02:33:26 PM
Post by: michelle666 on December 18, 2011, 02:33:26 PM
I attempted to transition in my early 20's, I had long hair, wore makeup and mostly female clothes, I got beat up really bad and it put a huge scare into me and I stopped. I'm now 41 and am starting again.