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I know there must be others here who transitioned early in life....

If you transitioned before age 25, would you share what age, the year, and when you had SRS?

For me, transition & SRS at the same time, 1974, at the age of 24.

Ok I'm going with before 18 because although I had a short period between 18 and 23 when I effectively de-transitioned on the insistence of my therapist that I must "try living as a male for once, before you do anything irreversible" I did spend most of my childhood closer to female than male.

If I could I'd go back and do it earlier, but I'm only 27 (transition in progress) now so it's not so far off from 25...

18 and hoping to get on HRT soon... so yay for early bloomers?

I guess I started transition when I was 22 I suppose I'm not done yet.

But really the only change then was giving up the idea that I could ameliorate my feelings and that it will only stop if I go the whole way with this those concessions go way back.

I started hormones on and off at 19 but had a lot of issues then.

So now 21 and a lot more stable and hopefully going fulltime sometime this summer.

I'm still in my 20's...just. Does mental age count for anything tho, because i'm still 19 in my head.

Quote from: Rock_chick on April 30, 2010, 01:39:44 PMDoes mental age count for anything  .....

Sorry Sweetie ... nope! I am still 16 mentally and immaturity doesn't count ROFL!

I'm 18, and starting anti-androgen hormones (hopefully) very soon.... it's not full-fledged female but it's a little step closer.

I'm 19

I checked 'before 22'.

I was about a month after 20 when I had something resembling a dysphoria induced breakdown where I realized that transition was a real option. And pretty much exactly a year later, a month after 21, I started HRT.

I am starting hormones this coming month, I turn 22 in June. I am so very excited!!

Quote from: Northern Jane on April 30, 2010, 01:46:20 PM
Sorry Sweetie ... nope! I am still 16 mentally and immaturity doesn't count ROFL!

damn...I'll just take comfort in the fact I was ID'd buying a lotto scratch card the other month and just keep people guessing as to my real age...they never get it!!  ;D

I started taking Dutasteride right after turning 22; I had started finasteride right after turning 21.

Switching over made a very big psychological difference for me; I am not sure if it is because it is a more powerful AA, or if it's because I could feel 100% sure that I would not lose my hair, but it brought me tremendous peace. I started lasering and wearing womesn' clothing full time at 22, spiro a few months after turning 23, and estrogen a few months before turning 24. I'm 24 and living/working/schooling/loving full time waiting to do name change.

So I suppose I'd say I transitioned at 23 since I had to start telling my customers that my male name was a nickname, or they'd freak out.

I ticked before 22 because i started going out when i was 20 and now im 21 (and 2 months lol) and ive been full time for a week (lol). Only had one appointment with the gender clinic so far but they were already talking about refering me to Charing Cross in London and ive got my next appointment with them less than 2 weeks after my first :D.

In previous attempts, yes -- but I don't know if that counts. I went FT when I was 26 and started HRT at the same time.

Thank you everyone for posting your experience.

The reason I asked in the first place was because I so often feel "odd" for having started the whole process so young and so long ago. I went from being "one of the girls" in childhood to confusing people in my teens - in the 1950's and 60's nobody had ever heard of TS - and lived a double life for many years. I started HRT in my teens (no blockers in those days, just oestrogen) and had SRS as soon as it became available.

It is nice to know that there are others "fighting the fight" so young.

i think everyone gets that sort of feeling sometimes, im 21 now transitioning and im jealous of my friend who had her surgery when she was 19, i wish i had started earlier, been braver but i wasnt so i have to deal with it. No point lamenting about the past, best just focus on a happy future

Quote from: El on May 04, 2010, 06:37:52 AM
i think everyone gets that sort of feeling sometimes, im 21 now transitioning and im jealous of my friend who had her surgery when she was 19, i wish i had started earlier, been braver but i wasnt so i have to deal with it. No point lamenting about the past, best just focus on a happy future

quoted for absolute truth.

LOL! It doesn't matter what age someone starts, we are all jealous of those who start younger (and that made me hesitant to post this thread in the first place).

I see kids now as young as 7 or 8 speaking out, getting on blockers before puberty, HRT in their teens, and I am jealous as hell, not so much of them but of the way the world has changed and it is now possible for them. Of course, if I had been born a year earlier, I probably would not have survived....

Quote from: Rhalkos on May 04, 2010, 05:27:58 AM
I'll be honest here:
This thread makes me feel horrible and something of a failure for not transitioning before 25.
I know that wasn't your intent, but that's still how I feel - and I have no control over that feeling.

Doesn't matter how old you were you always wish you'd gone sooner no successful trans person would wish they'd suffered meaninglessly for longer. So your not alone and none of us can escape it regardless of our age.

I'm only 23 now but I envy those who are 20 you could see me swimming around here looking for info on howto get therapy but I didn't I literally walked upto the door which could have started it and ran away. missed opportunities make you feel regret and we all feel them.

I started my transition just after my 16 birthday, I was more or less FT by the time I was 19, but didn't have srs till I was 28.

Quote from: Northern Jane on May 04, 2010, 07:41:11 AM


I see kids now as young as 7 or 8 speaking out, getting on blockers before puberty, HRT in their teens, and I am jealous as hell, not so much of them but of the way the world has changed and it is now possible for them. Of course, if I had been born a year earlier, I probably would not have survived....

Thats my only regret, I didn't start sooner, yes Im mad jealous at kids as young as 7 or 8, and my parents would have supported me, but I wasn't to know at the time, it was a fear of coming out, I lost out on being a little girl growing up, instead I had to suffer being a boy which I wasn't growing up till I got to my mid teens, thats life.
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I'm below the age where i should post my age without it being edited...
I'm already seeing a person about getting on T! I feel pretty ->-bleeped-<- good when i think that even though I'm not "found out" like one of the supremely lucky kids at 7-9 years, i still have a chance to get a head start on the effects of puberty.

Realized I was trans at 18.  Started T, changed my name, and got top surgery at 19.  This was last year

I realised I was trans at 17 got a referral to a GIC, now i'm 18 and will soon be having my first appointment.

I selected before 24.

I started when I was 21, and had SRS when I was 23 in 2010.

i really wish i could transition asap, everyday is just horrible torture for me. but i dont think that can really happen for me in my situation.

Quote from: Stella Blue on April 30, 2010, 04:10:29 PM
I turn 22 in June. I am so very excited!!

Hi Stella :icon_wave: me too!  ;)

Wheels have been set in motion and transition is the only way forward.
Just a thought, the phrase "I transitioned when I was blabla at year yadayada" doesn't make much sense IMHO. It's a process.

Quote from: Karla on May 07, 2010, 09:35:43 PM
Hi Stella :icon_wave: me too!  ;)

Really?! When in June???

I knew ages ago but never had the courage to start till last year.  Did lots of stuff younger but it never stuck.  Everyone has envy of those who had the courage or support to do it sooner.  Stood up for what they believed to their parents, etc.  Here I am at 25 exactly and I envy not only the people who got to start sooner?  But the great many of you who not only pass and done it sooner, but the self confidence many of you have just to step outside daily as yourselves.

Quote from: Stella Blue on May 08, 2010, 01:42:19 AM
Really?! When in June???

another 22 in juner!

Quote from: shanetastic on May 08, 2010, 02:55:02 AM
another 22 in juner!

Quote from: Stella Blue on May 08, 2010, 01:42:19 AM
Really?! When in June???

Oh hey!! wow.
Stella, PM;

My present this year is a free Frappuccino.
And maybe an official name change ;D

Began my transition only a few months ago at 18; I'm less than a month from 19, and I am looking to go full time after the summer (I wish I could now, but my employment requires me to present as male). The name change is done, new health card and dl, changed my name with the bank.

Quote from: shanetastic on May 08, 2010, 02:55:02 AM
another 22 in juner!

At this rate we can all start our own club  :laugh:

I feel like a failure to have started hormones and being fulltime at 23 (will be 28 in a week). I live stealth and pass without issue, but I'm still pre-op. I wished I started earlier.  I also feel like I've been pre-op far longer than most people and it will be a few years before I can even imagine being able to afford surgery.

I started transition and name change at 18 and hormones at 19 :) Surgery is a long way off though.

I started transitioning at 16...but didn't start hormones til 3 years later, but I lived full time since I was 16.