Poll
Question:
What age did you finally do something about it ?
Option 1: Early Teens
votes: 0
Option 2: Mid teens
votes: 2
Option 3: Late teens
votes: 6
Option 4: Early twenties
votes: 5
Option 5: Mid twenties
votes: 9
Option 6: Late twenties
votes: 2
Option 7: Early thirties
votes: 3
Option 8: Mid thirties
votes: 3
Option 9: Late thirties
votes: 1
Option 10: Early forties
votes: 2
Option 11: Mid forties
votes: 2
Option 12: Late forties
votes: 1
Option 13: Fifty plus
votes: 4
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 :)
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.
QuoteWhat age did you finally do something about it ?
Late twenties (27).
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. :)
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.
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 :)
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. :(
I came out to my parents at age sixteen, though I wasn't able to start hormones before my eighteenth birthday. :3
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.
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.