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Curious about the time people transitioned

I'm not a transitioner, but I found my inner girl when I was 47.

Started when I was 18 didnt get on legal hrt till 20

I started at about 24 (socially) and I am now 26 and have been on T for about a year.

It was about 2PM, I think.

All kidding aside, I was 43 years, 8 months, 19 days.

Started everything at 22. The signs were there and probably should have started when I was 18.

I was 22 when I stated questioning my gender. I dove right into research. Within 6 months I was binding on the regular. Played with socially transitioning for a couple years (I was a bit of a loner/hermit). I didn't officially start RLE until I was 24 1/2 (August 2013) and went to rehab for a drug problem, I decided to go through the men's program and it changed my life even though I kind of hated the program. Started T when I was about 25 1/2 in June. I really wish I would have started medically transitioning sooner. I thought I would never get the chance so I started using drugs instead. I'm still picking up the pieces from my 2 year bender.

Knew I was a man from my earliest memories trapped in a female body.  Wasn't able to do anything about it medically until I was 33 years old and had to move to another country to do it.

starting my journey at 32... no idea what my timeline will be yet.

Have also always known, but just started HRT about 3.5 months ago, and I'm 22.

I started HRT about a month after my 18th birthday, my social transition was in phases from about 16/17 up until 18. And I'm still coming out to people.

Always wanted to be a boy as a kid, tried to fit in as a teen/early 20's, was closeted genderqueer for a few years in there but mostly didn't acknowledge that identity even to myself, met a transman IRL for the first time at 24 and started questioning, identified as genderqueer publicly for a year or so, decided to answer my question at 25. Still haven't gone on HRT, legally changed name or gender, or come out to most of my family.

There are definitely guys on this forum who started younger (teens) as well as older (30s, 40s, 50s, or after significant life experiences like marriage, kids, etc).

There is a lot of stuff in the media lately about trans kids, but there are a LOT of factors that go into being an out trans kid. It requires a highly supportive family, a particularly assertive personality, and access to information (for the kid and/or parents, through internet research, books, education, or other avenues, which can be limited both by socio-economic factors and physical geography). Those kids are unfortunately the exception rather than the rule.

So I'm happy to be where I am now. There are guys in my support group in their 50's and 60's who are just beginning their journeys. And they are happy to finally be where they are.

 haven't transitioned socially, but  transitioned mentally at age 19.  I started gender therapy around 20/21, and I plan to have top surgery in 2015 hopefully.  I have no idea when I'm going to start hormones or transition socially.

Blockers at 15/16, HRT on my 18th b'day, SRS at 21.

I discovered that trans men were a thing three days before my fifteenth birthday, got into a place where I could come out a few weeks off my eighteenth birthday, and did so.  I'm still eighteen, and as long as nothing goes horribly wrong I should begin hormones just before my nineteenth birthday.

23 started therapy, 24 started hormones, 27 had top surgery.

I'm counting the moment I decided: okay, I am a boy and I want to be me. And that evening told my parents I wanted to transition ad started telling others. I was 19.5 :D I started HRT at 20 in June. An now I'm 21 :D

Realized at 17, originally intended to transition at 18. Put it off until this year. I'm 25 now, starting HRT on 12/5 with the intention to have top surgery in the spring.

Technically had my script for 3 months before filling it. Took my first shot a month before my 20th birthday. Been on T for about 3 months. I saw your other post. No need to feel regret...It's not fulfilling and there's always a reason for everything.

I voted twice - had a go at age 23 for two years before I imploded, this time started age 47 and still going strong.

started when i was 18, didn't start T until a month after my 23rd birthday. that was my own fault as i wasn't in school, etc. to have my "real life experience" like i needed (which was a requirement then to start hormones). getting my top surgery this spring. my goal was to be fully transitioned by the time i was 24 and it looks like i will be done a month before my 24th birthday.

I started when I was 21; realized it myself, told family and friends and started the actual therapy process. I'm now 24, on T and post top surgery and hysto. :P

I would be curious to see a FTM poll separate from a MTF poll.  My understanding is that the average age for trans woman to transition is later than a trans man.  I'm curious to know if Susan.org's follows this pattern.

I'm on the later end for trans men.  I started testosterone at 44, top surgery was at 43.  When I got the top surgery I wasn't certain if I was going to socially transition or not.

Quote from: Jill F on November 13, 2014, 09:36:49 PM
It was about 2PM, I think.

All kidding aside, I was 43 years, 8 months, 19 days.

I was just a few months younger than Jill. 43 years, 6 months... not sure how many days. :P

Quote from: Bombadil on November 15, 2014, 12:07:04 AM
I was just a few months younger than Jill. 43 years, 6 months... not sure how many days. :P

We're all pretty close.

I was 44 years, 5 months, and 9 days for T.  BUT, I was only 43 years, 6 months, and 10 days for top surgery.

So... does first GP appointment count as starting to transition?

Socially - 11 yrs old
Medically - 15 yrs old

i told my mom that i no longer wanted to wear dresses at age 4, so as long as i've been able to think for myself. i started t at age 19.... would've been 16 or 17 but anxiety got in the way.

Always known I was male, from my earliest memories. Did therapy for years and years, for gender stuff and other stuff, started T last year in September, I was 18 and a few months

I started "medicine" at 24-25.

I knew I was trans and that I wanted to transition at age 15-16 I'd say, came out to parents and started therapy at age 18, started hormones at age 19, this year I'm gonna turn 20 in May, when I'll be 8-9 months on T. According to plan, I'll have had top surgery by the end of 2016 (so I'll be 21 years old at most, if everything goes as planned).

I'm from the Dark Ages. Known since 4 didn't know how to go about it until 14 months ago when I couldn't go on anymore. I'm 63 I had a lot of therapy all my life , but I never saw the door.

I voted in the 28-33 range, even though I'm just starting my journey and I'm currently 28 I'm hopping that I'll have a lot more accomplished by the time I'm 33.

I should be on T in a few weeks, so 21.

I'm a middle-ager... Top surgery at 40, started hormones 3 months after.  Still working on trying to feel right in this body.

I knew the discrepancy between mind and body was there, but I didn't acknowledge it until I was 13, 14. I buried those feelings until age 17, when I came out and started living socially as male. I started transitioning medically at 18.