I'm another who transitioned before the internet was a resource.  Got my info from the news and library books.  Got into a support group by placing an ad in the paper.  Luckily, I got a response, and the group was only a couple of hours away.   So I moved there and transitioned.  Others were flying there from thousands of miles away every month.  It was great luck.

Quote from: Starbuck on January 21, 2009, 01:08:42 PM
Nnnnnneeecrrro post!

Lots of those lately. The dark side of the "related topics" feature. Or maybe the light side.

Except for a couple of rare cases, "transition" and SRS were a virtual impossibility in the 1960's but I had no choice. Like being in a burning highrise, you either die in the flames or jump and pray for the best, so I slashed a trail where there was none and came out into the sunshine in 1974.

Quote from: Northern Jane on January 22, 2009, 04:56:28 AM
Except for a couple of rare cases, "transition" and SRS were a virtual impossibility in the 1960's but I had no choice. Like being in a burning highrise, you either die in the flames or jump and pray for the best, so I slashed a trail where there was none and came out into the sunshine in 1974.

Thankyou again for your story Northern Jane....


Kiera: arguing with a quit member is like arguing with yourself : it will get you sectioned
Tbh, the title and topic are entirely clear to me...

are you better or worse off how? last time i checked, there was no 'cooler' way to transition, no better or worse method. Transitioning pre internet, just means youre old

Quote from: Starbuck on January 22, 2009, 07:20:06 AMTransitioning pre internet, just means youre old

WHACK!

Watch your mouth young lady!

ey! well you're like over 30... you're ancient!

If thats the case... then i knew i was a girl way before the internet.. (which we only got when i was 16 or so, I dont see how being before a media revolution makes one a 'more serious ->-bleeped-<-' that some seem to aspire to here... Who cares, we all transitioned, nobody is the winner!
As for kit: um, she did (W still chat)

Quote from: Starbuck on January 22, 2009, 08:41:51 AM
ey! well you're like over 30... you're ancient!

Watch your mouth, young lady!

Alas, I have lost the trust of 1960's Berkeley radicals.

Quote from: Starbuck on January 22, 2009, 08:41:51 AM
ey! well you're like over 30... you're ancient!

OK,  let's all of us Geezer Girls get her! 

Z

hey dont hate on me because im young and popular

Ill probably ended transitioned much much later. After getting married (yuck) or some other stupid thing.

Well in my mind I always thought of myself as male mentally speaking without actually thinking I was a male if that makes any sense.

I actually came out as the result of a decade long process of questioning but the catalyst for me to come out and come to terms with my feelings of unhappiness with my identity was an article I read in a magazine about FTM transexuals.  I can't tel you the relief I felt at finally feeling like out there someone else was exactly like me, had feelings like me, that little article summed it all up in a nutshell.

So I have to say yes I would be transitioning without the internet but would I be transitioning without information which basically what the web is...I don't know, I think maybe, eventually but it would have taken me a long time to figure it all out and even longer to work out what to do about it.

Thing is getting the infomation out there so more people can have the same realisation I did is so crucial, when people have access to information and education it is literally like turning on a lightbulb in a darkened room, you illuminate things you maybe sensed were there but couldn't see clearlyto describe.

This is why indeed in this new digital age where we all have free access to information you thankfully will see more and more TS and TG people transitioning and/or discovering their true place on the gender spectrum.

The one time I will ever use this word but Amen to that.

Hi Tink, Wing Walker says if your 64 years old she's the new pope.

Hi Syarbuck, Yep, sure appears that way, another one of those Nero threads, an old one, but hey, it appears like it was more fun way back last year then it is this year.  Did someone hit the smite button on the smileys?

It was finding the Canary Conn's book in the library that brought me to the awakening of who I was, I then got my first online computer and found Susan's chat and one year later I began transitioning. That was 9 years ago.

Cindy

Pope Paula the 1st. Hey I know the science stuff, I don't do the equations, I leave the calculation of parsecs for you to work with then we can start building our first interdimensional think drive star ship.

Cindy

It gaves same result in different numbers I think.

I took my attempt to solve it away that it is not telling something about secret !

Quote from: Cindi Jones on March 01, 2008, 01:52:30 AM
I had no internet when I went through this in the mid to late eighties. 

I honestly had no idea what this was, that there was a name for it, or that there was anyone else in the entire world that had a similar problem.  I thought that I was the only one who had ever been like this.  Really.

I grew up in the Mormon faith and led a fairly sheltered life.  I didn't even know about gay people.  Really.

I had already started testing the waters for my own identity by crossdressing and going out in public whenever I could when I stumbled across this thing called Compuserve.  I suppose it was something like the predecessor to what we now call the internet.  You could call up and connect for six bucks an hour to H&R Block's mainframe and "chat" with poeple.  There were a handful of us that managed to find each other in that world.  I did manage to meet many of them in my travels as I flew to many cities in my profession.

So.... yes, I would have continued without that virtual connection to a handful of others.  But I am so glad that I found them in this big world.  It made an impossible thing much more bearable to know that others had similar feelings.

.... and along the way I did find out about gay people.

Cindi

I met this veteran who was divorcing his wife back in the 80's and he stayed with me at my sisters hair salon in Pennsylvania after he and i got out of the coatesville veterans hospital, because we didn't have a place to stay. He gave me a business card which had compuserve on it. He was into computers then which he learned from the military. i know later he was a major starter of compuserve if only i could remember his name.. He moved to the virgin islands the last i heard from him.

I had started transitioning by taking hormones to stop my thinning hair when i was in Phila pa and then i got online to learn more when someone mentioned the transgender nation.. I had never heard that word before but i quickly learned a lot at the GAZEBO ON AOL There i met andrea james and a few others on the transgender community forum

Ok, I christen thee our new interdimensional think drive star-ship Saint Tink.

Cindy

hi... did not know what a computer was . let alone use one . or pit it another way i was on a trip . not knowing were it was going i knew total nothing . on my own as far as i knew . the words & terms we use had no meaning at all
   i just knew i was different . 11 years ago i told jos i was a women . hell started on that day .. along the way i have learnd lots . jos & i still live to gether as just two women . i am andro . so one of the things i learned was i was going to live the rest of my life as a women who is just me .
      20 months ago we got a computer 6 months of total frustrating . trying to learn how to work this damm thing . am i any better now  no not really . yet i have got to a place where i think it works a little for me . i am on forums around the world now & with lots of friends . i dont really know what i am doing 1 / 2 the time the other 1 / 2 not much better . any way thats the way it is for me . so the computer & all the things that go with it did not help .
      i was to far along the way to living as a women by then . for the younger ones its great ..11 years ago info was not there for me . well i did not know of any then . nor would i have known where to go for it the terms or what ever ... let alone Dr.s or who ever . so i had to pull up all that was in me to know what to do . & i did . then later i did get info & find people who would & could help . any way thats the way it was ...
...noeleena...
   

I think I would have been to afraid and would have remained a closet CD only going public on Halloween. I'm really glad for the resources and support that is now available to me  Especially the friends I've met