Where do you think transition begins? Coming out to oneself, coming out to someone else, wearing the right clothes and/or makeup, the first visit with a therapist, the first session of electro/laser, the first time presenting in public, the first time taking hormones, or perhaps even surgeries, or maybe something else?

I think transition starts when you decide to transition

I feel it comes before all of that. What I mean to say it really starts when we have a first inkling of an idea that we are different and the seed of that thought does grow eventually to such a point that it must grow. When that seed does get out of control could be a little different but the start was long before you thought it was.

After my Trans bomb went off and I had sought therapy, I had asked my therapist what was going on with me from a therapeutic point of view. Her answer shocked me but was so true, she said " My Dear, you're transitioning". She blew my mind with that statement. So I believe that transition starts the moment that you recognize that you have to deal with your trans issues.

It starts when you decide to do it.

Medical transition starts when you take steps like HRT. Not everyone medically transitions.

My transition started with the realization that my gender issues would never go away so it was high time for me to confront them in a mature and responsible way.

...or maybe for me it really started a couple years before when I woke up from my last night of alchoholic slumber. I looked in the bathroom mirror for the first time in a very long time and recognized that I didn't know the person I saw looking back at me. That I wasn't myself and I was not happy with who I was. That sobering moment was my first step. That realization that whatever I might be hiding is, it can't be worse than my reality had become. That was the leap of faith I took that has got me here, on the cusp of becoming me in full! 

I feel it began for me the moment that knew I that I had to do something about it.
Mariah

Quote from: antonia on March 05, 2015, 10:35:08 PM
I think transition starts when you decide to transition

I think Antonia pretty much summarises it.  It's the moment of starting, regardless of how you proceed and what you do.