I hinted at it to a friend at around the 7th month and told my niece at about the 15th month . My friend thought it pretty cool and my niece stopped talking to me.. I really have no other family that's talking to me for other reasons. I was going to out my self on Facebook , but just deleted my account and use my other Facebook account without letting anyone else know except two friends.

A majority were right at the point I started transitioning, but a couple of people were before I started. Anyway I was sharing with new within the first or so. I had no reason to hold back telling them.
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at about 11 months I told my dad and then when I hit two years, I told the rest of my family and friends. Letting them already notice changes seemed to make things easier for me.

I didn't. The newspaper did. Pre everything.

told a few of my family members a few months before i started and then they pretty much told the rest of the family over then next few months. told a few of my friends a couple months after starting.

I told a few family members and a close friend pre-everything. Then in the following months whilst I was awaiting my first GIC appointment and having electrolysis, I told the rest of my family and a few other friends. Now I just have a few more friends to tell.

I told everyone - family, friends, work ... and went full-time as well, just before I started AA's.

Let's not beat around the bush. The first few months were *hard*. But it has benefitted me in the long run, since I've had all this extra time (13 months total now!) to adjust to my new life.

about 2 years after I started. I first told my mom then my dad.

My wife, 3 months before I started anything at all. My friends, about 2 months into transition (dating from when I'd seen a therapist), and my family a month or so after that.

If we date from HRT instead, it'd be about 2 months before for friends and 1 month before for family.

I had been seeing a therapist and getting electro for a month when I decided to start hormones. I told my mother the night before my HRT start date.

I had told me best friend in the world a few weeks or so prior and have been telling old friends on and off for the past few months. Some of them already suspected so there were more than a few "Ah hah" moments as things came together for them.

This might be kinda weird, but I had a thing about starting HRT where I felt like I had to tell *someone* before I started.  So I told my mom, who was very supportive.  My immediate family all know now and so far so good. 

I'm still not out to everyone, mostly because of work but I'm getting there.

I told everyone I know a couple weeks in, i was only dressing at that point. As soon as I spoke to someone on the medical end and said I was trans to another person for the first time, that was it. I couldn't conceal myself any more. I just told everone and began my social transition, a couple weeks later I startred hrt. Although going through this sticky androgynous phase has its difficulties I am knd of liking it. In my years in the closet I carried a constant sense of being trapped between the two genders. Now the world can see how I feel and as I get more and more feminine in my apearance and how I feel the world follows suit in its reaction to me.

I'm sort of rushing ahead and going slow, all at once...

Wife, pre hormones. Parents and siblings about a month in.

Aunt/godmother about 4 months in.

Rest of family will find out when I go full time. That is provided my dad or mom hasn't told them first.

Quote from: marsh monster on May 03, 2015, 02:43:25 PM
at about 11 months I told my dad and then when I hit two years, I told the rest of my family and friends. Letting them already notice changes seemed to make things easier for me.

^ this. I did almost the exact same thing. It was tough convincing the medical end to allow me to go forward with such a small support circle but it was the only way I felt would work for me. Allowing others to see the changes first made it easier to tell them, instead of telling them with nothing to show.

I only told 2 people other than medical professionals pre-HRT.  I told everybody else 3 months afterward that I'd been full time for a month and wasn't ever going back.