Susan's Place Transgender Resources

Curious about the statistics of trans* people.

I went for months where I would purposely binge on food and then throw it all back up. Was it an eating disorder? I don't know, I never told anybody. I'm the fat kid, if I did tell somebody they would laugh in my face and think I was joking. I don't know how to answer your poll, but that's my story.

I'm bulimic about once a week, a few times a week, but a few weeks apart generally. I'd say it's enough to say it's *something*. It's definitely not nothing.

Anorexic and binge eater in my 20s. Needed to work an overeater's anonymous program to get me back on track.

I skipped meals at school to stay thin.Just before starting HRT I fasted every weekend and dropped to 154 pound way to thin for my height.In early 2003 I ate 1 baked potato a day for a month,I lost loads of weight but felt horrible and started cutting again.I over eat these days.

Ate too much yesterday, purged after. Not much came up. Today I'm only eating about 300 calories. I just want to get to 140 or 145 (i'm 5'9) and then i'll eat normally. I just don't want to wait forever :/ I have a problem.

Anorexia in my early 20's. No idea this was what I was doing at the time. Just started to feel a strange thrill/sense of control when eating as little as possible from day to day. Would blithely brag about this to friends. Six feet tall, I eventually got my weight down to the low 140s. This, too, was thrilling. Pictures from the time are frightening.

A thought occurred to me reading these posts. When male bodied people present with anorexia, should they be screened for transgender as a possible contributing factor?

Quote from: suzifrommd on November 21, 2013, 06:01:41 PM
A thought occurred to me reading these posts. When male bodied people present with anorexia, should they be screened for transgender as a possible contributing factor?

What makes you say that?

Quote from: Joe. on November 21, 2013, 07:26:48 PM
What makes you say that?

Anorexia among males is rare (except those who need to make "weight classes" for athletic events).

My eating disorder is definitely related to my transgender. I perceived a thin stomach as feminine and attractive. I remember telling my OA sponsor that one of the reasons I needed to be thin is because it made me feel female.

In fact I got a sort of sick pleasure in the fact that I had a disorder generally reserved for women.

For someone like me, wouldn't it be possible that getting treatment for my transgender might be a way to alleviate the problems that led to my eating disorder?

Those are really good points. Now that you mention it like that, I could see how the 2 could be linked. I recently met a young transgirl who used to have anorexia. It's a really interesting thought and I can see how they could correlate. I agree that it should be looked into. Thanks for bringing it up

I don't have a eating disorder, But I do have rather strange eating habbits.
In some periodes I eat little to nothing at all, and in other periods I eat alot.
Usunally I dont eat much around the day and then I eat a big meal in the night.
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I'm gonna say other, cause i don't eat enough but it's cause i don't get enough food.

I was always a bit overweight. I really ate all that I wanted and because of that I got almost an IMC of 30...

Since a few months ago I started a very restrictive diet by my own and each day I eat less. I am at the point I drink a quarter of a hot chocolate cup and a small slice of cheese as breakfast. My lunch is a small salad and a very tiny steak or chicken fillet...same for dinner...and it is over. Nothing more. I am very happy to be losing weight really fast...but I still see myself as a very chubby person. My family wants me to stop the diet, but I don't feel I am thin yet.

I hope I won't face any problem, as I am starting to eat each time less and when I eat what would be a normal sized meal I feel extremely guilty and feel like wanting to vomit...