I know there must be others here who transitioned early in life....

If you transitioned before age 25, would you share what age, the year, and when you had SRS?

For me, transition & SRS at the same time, 1974, at the age of 24.

Ok I'm going with before 18 because although I had a short period between 18 and 23 when I effectively de-transitioned on the insistence of my therapist that I must "try living as a male for once, before you do anything irreversible" I did spend most of my childhood closer to female than male.

If I could I'd go back and do it earlier, but I'm only 27 (transition in progress) now so it's not so far off from 25...

18 and hoping to get on HRT soon... so yay for early bloomers?

I guess I started transition when I was 22 I suppose I'm not done yet.

But really the only change then was giving up the idea that I could ameliorate my feelings and that it will only stop if I go the whole way with this those concessions go way back.

I started hormones on and off at 19 but had a lot of issues then.

So now 21 and a lot more stable and hopefully going fulltime sometime this summer.

I'm still in my 20's...just. Does mental age count for anything tho, because i'm still 19 in my head.

Quote from: Rock_chick on April 30, 2010, 01:39:44 PMDoes mental age count for anything  .....

Sorry Sweetie ... nope! I am still 16 mentally and immaturity doesn't count ROFL!

I'm 18, and starting anti-androgen hormones (hopefully) very soon.... it's not full-fledged female but it's a little step closer.

I'm 19

I checked 'before 22'.

I was about a month after 20 when I had something resembling a dysphoria induced breakdown where I realized that transition was a real option. And pretty much exactly a year later, a month after 21, I started HRT.

I am starting hormones this coming month, I turn 22 in June. I am so very excited!!

Quote from: Northern Jane on April 30, 2010, 01:46:20 PM
Sorry Sweetie ... nope! I am still 16 mentally and immaturity doesn't count ROFL!

damn...I'll just take comfort in the fact I was ID'd buying a lotto scratch card the other month and just keep people guessing as to my real age...they never get it!! 

I started taking Dutasteride right after turning 22; I had started finasteride right after turning 21.

Switching over made a very big psychological difference for me; I am not sure if it is because it is a more powerful AA, or if it's because I could feel 100% sure that I would not lose my hair, but it brought me tremendous peace. I started lasering and wearing womesn' clothing full time at 22, spiro a few months after turning 23, and estrogen a few months before turning 24. I'm 24 and living/working/schooling/loving full time waiting to do name change.

So I suppose I'd say I transitioned at 23 since I had to start telling my customers that my male name was a nickname, or they'd freak out.

I ticked before 22 because i started going out when i was 20 and now im 21 (and 2 months lol) and ive been full time for a week (lol). Only had one appointment with the gender clinic so far but they were already talking about refering me to Charing Cross in London and ive got my next appointment with them less than 2 weeks after my first .

In previous attempts, yes -- but I don't know if that counts. I went FT when I was 26 and started HRT at the same time.

Thank you everyone for posting your experience.

The reason I asked in the first place was because I so often feel "odd" for having started the whole process so young and so long ago. I went from being "one of the girls" in childhood to confusing people in my teens - in the 1950's and 60's nobody had ever heard of TS - and lived a double life for many years. I started HRT in my teens (no blockers in those days, just oestrogen) and had SRS as soon as it became available.

It is nice to know that there are others "fighting the fight" so young.

i think everyone gets that sort of feeling sometimes, im 21 now transitioning and im jealous of my friend who had her surgery when she was 19, i wish i had started earlier, been braver but i wasnt so i have to deal with it. No point lamenting about the past, best just focus on a happy future

Quote from: El on May 04, 2010, 06:37:52 AM
i think everyone gets that sort of feeling sometimes, im 21 now transitioning and im jealous of my friend who had her surgery when she was 19, i wish i had started earlier, been braver but i wasnt so i have to deal with it. No point lamenting about the past, best just focus on a happy future

quoted for absolute truth.

LOL! It doesn't matter what age someone starts, we are all jealous of those who start younger (and that made me hesitant to post this thread in the first place).

I see kids now as young as 7 or 8 speaking out, getting on blockers before puberty, HRT in their teens, and I am jealous as hell, not so much of them but of the way the world has changed and it is now possible for them. Of course, if I had been born a year earlier, I probably would not have survived....