actually i first dressed fully as a woman when i went to femmefever in long island,and that was about seven years ago.but i had been underdressing for longer than that. :icon_birthday:phylisanne

I was in Long Island 7 years ago but I was already full time fem, that was where I met a very good friend, one I miss very much, wonderful lady. I only pray that my partner and I can make it back out east to Long Island to visit. But then I have good friends in Tennessee and North Carolina as well as mid and southern Ontario.

The earliest I can remember I was still preschool, 3 years old.

Back in December 1995 when I was just 12.

Sometime in my early teens in the early '70s and then on and off from then

Somewhere around 6-7 I think I "borrowed" mom's bras and hose, the when a bit older some dresses.  First put it all together as a "girl" when 13, then off and on through teen years and then not for a long time.

I discovered a pretty red satin dress and I had to try it on. I was only abou 4 or 5 years old. I still love red satin.

Started when I was very young, about 4 or 5.

I got really shouted at by my Dad for it, the only time he ever used to lose it with me!

My Mum then sent me very young to a Child Psychiatrist because of it. Don't remember much but I've always favoured an androgynous look since my teens so maybe he brainwashed me or something...

Imaz, Sorry but I got a chuckle out that. Sent to a shrink? I have an acquaintance in SLC Utah, Deborah/malcolm who grew up in a small town in Ohio. He would dress and go out at night when nobody was around. He was afraid if he got caught they would send him to an asylum and administer electroshock therapy.

Quote from: Genevieve Swann on February 27, 2009, 08:26:24 AM
He was afraid if he got caught they would send him to an asylum and administer electroshock therapy.

I had that same fear.  Electroshock and pre-frontal lobotomies were quite the rage when I was growing up.  It was the cure for *everything* until they came up with mood altering drugs.

And at that time trans-anything was gay and gay was something that could be fixed.

I was terrified.

-Sandy

Sandy, When I was 18 years old I worked at a mental hospital and we had two guys who they had given lobotomies. One had to be helped to go to the bathroom.The other spent most of his time masturbating and drooling. Both were confined behind bars. It was cruel and unusual punishment. Lobotomies are now illegal for good reason.

Quote from: Genevieve Swann on February 27, 2009, 08:26:24 AM
Imaz, Sorry but I got a chuckle out that. Sent to a shrink? I have an acquaintance in SLC Utah, Deborah/malcolm who grew up in a small town in Ohio. He would dress and go out at night when nobody was around. He was afraid if he got caught they would send him to an asylum and administer electroshock therapy.

Hehe! Didn't want to come across as being post lobotomy!

Never had ECT or medication, I was lucky that even back then the shrink realised that it was my Mum that was crazy. As regards all that Gay business I grew up with everyone thinking I was Gay. Well I was Gay in that I preferred girls but that wasn't exactly what they meant.

Gay cannot be "fixed" to the best of my knowledge. Something I don't understand is why so many people assume a crossdresser is gay when most are straight, married, have children and are still in the closet. Those are the statistics anyway.

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Sandy, As far as crazy family members, my mother has been in lockdown for intensive therapy. My sister has multiple personality disorder. They have names and talk to each other. It's rather entertaining. At least she will never get lonely.

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Sorry I meant imaz not Sandy.

Quote from: misty on August 29, 2008, 07:07:46 PM
A question for mtf's.........when did you first dress female?

I don't even remember.  I was too young.  It's always been part of my life.  I'm guessing that before I knew I was 'a boy' and not supposed to be a girl, dressing in feminine clothes was normal and therefore not something that would be vividly burned into my memory.

I do remember coming to an awareness that the way I like to dress and present myself was considered wrong.  I was about five then.  But it still took a couple of years before I had a better understanding that there would be a heavy price to pay if I continued to act or dress femininely.

Julie

I never did, at least not fully, in fact I did all I could to avoid it.
I didn't want to know what feelings it would aise and what it would mean.

Quote from: Ava Nieves on February 04, 2009, 08:56:55 PM
Back in December 1995 when I was just 12.

Quote from: imaz on February 27, 2009, 07:48:08 AM
I got really shouted at by my Dad for it, the only time he ever used to lose it with me!

My Mum then sent me very young to a Child Psychiatrist because of it. Don't remember much but I've always favoured an androgynous look since my teens so maybe he brainwashed me or something...

I neglected to mention I first dressed feminine at the age of 3 (in 1986)--my mother didn't really pay any attention at the time.

Then in 1995, my mother was downright mad and caught me in her underwear while I was in a relationship with my first girlfriend (Amanda) in front of my then five-year old dog, three-year-old cat, and two-year-old dog.

Eight years later, at age 20 in 2003 (now with my mother deceased,)  I dressed as a woman named "Ava" for Halloween and that was when I realized I started to live full-time (but did not completely go full-time until I turned 21) as a woman. The next month, I was in a psych ward where I was diagnosed as a transsexual (Gender Identity Disorder.)

Quote from: Ava Nieves on February 28, 2009, 09:37:31 AM


I neglected to mention I first dressed feminine at the age of 3 (in 1986)--my mother didn't really pay any attention at the time.

Then in 1995, my mother was downright mad and caught me in her underwear while I was in a relationship with my first girlfriend (Amanda) in front of my then five-year old dog, three-year-old cat, and two-year-old dog.

Eight years later, at age 20 in 2003 (now with my mother deceased,)  I dressed as a woman named "Ava" for Halloween and that was when I realized I started to live full-time (but did not completely go full-time until I turned 21) as a woman. The next month, I was in a psych ward where I was diagnosed as a transsexual (Gender Identity Disorder.)

Lol... Love the dogs' and cat's ages detail!

Hi Ava Nieves that was the age I remember my mom dressing me in girls clothes. I believe that in the forties and early fifties it was a fad back then where they occasionally would dress their boy child in girls clothes, anyway my mom did on occasion and I never got a haircut until I was 6 years old when I started my first year at school.

In my teens I would often sneak my sisters clothes out and dress up in the privacy of the woods. I even got bold enough at times that I would wear my sisters clothes and my moms wig and go sit on the rocks overlooking the lake and wave at boaters going by. From where they were all they could see was a girl.

I also once dressed up when there was no one at home and had the good ole rock music on and dance around the living room in front of the big picture window and these guys driving by on the highway half way out of the windows whistling and waving at me. Again from that distance I appeared to them as a girl. I Had long hair down to my butt in my teens during the hippie era, wearing unisex clothes and bullying with a tom boy I passed quite well as a girl.

Budying? Heck, Helen and I were like Siamese twins, inseparable. I believe that during those years I passed more as a girl then what my lower anatomy presented

May not be around as much I found a really awesome Wiccan site.

Cindy   

I went to a Halloween party hosted by two school girl classmates and since I didn't have a costume they dressed me up in some of their clothes for the evening.

At 13

it is amazing that a full 65% of the respondents dress before the age of 10. This fact trumps any sexual connection