my question is: how old were you when you started to transition?

my answer: i just recently started to mainly because my parents are against it and i live with them. I was 19 at the time.

17. I knew I was trans when I was 15 but wasnt ready and didn't know how to start

I guess I started about a month before I turned 16, but that was just a haircut and some baggy hoodies.

I finally got a binder a little after I turned 16.

I should have my name and gender changed on my birth certificate and have my letter for T written (and hopefully I'll get to the endocrinologist) in August, about a month before I turn 17.

Good luck with your transition and your parents; hopefully they'll come around. 

I started when I was about 16 and a half (cut my hair, came out to family & friends, started going to therapy, refused to be considered female, blah blah), and got my first legit binder a couple of months ago when I turned 17 (instead of my pain-in-the-ass ace bandages...LOL).

13, well i've been dressing  like a guy since i was like really little (5 or 6), but i actually started trying to pass and learned what ftm was when i was 13.

Actually did something about my appearance maybe 15-16. Came out 16, going to start hormones soon I think.

18. It would have been earlier if I had know what FTM was.

I realized i was trans when i was 16. Came out a couple weeks after my 17th birthday. Started binding right after that. Got my name legally changed about 4 months later.
Started T when i was 17.

I only started about this time last year, so 23.  Like some of the others, I would have started sooner if I knew what an FtM was.  But I feel I had to experiment with everything else to have any certainty about this at all.  I wouldn't give up those years of experimentation I don't think. 

I was 18, finally cut my hair, nothing but guy clothes, binder. But like most, boys clothes were my preference ever since I was little, just slightly "girlier" at times. I'm 19 now

Quote from: Ryan on July 13, 2010, 02:30:51 AM
It would have been earlier if I had know what FTM was.

Same here. I was 17 almost 18.

I was 17, I'm 19 now.

I find it interesting that every one of you have started transition at an early age, yet the trans men I consider my friends and I know IRL all started their transition late in life. Guess they don't tend to frequent these types of forums as often.

"technically" 20'ish
"officially" 26

21...and I'm currently 21...late bloomer

Ok, I'm 38 and just starting. Does that make me old???

Quote from: Turtle on July 13, 2010, 12:13:12 PM
Ok, I'm 38 and just starting. Does that make me old???

yes.

j/k

Quote from: Ryan on July 13, 2010, 02:30:51 AMIt would have been earlier if I had know what FTM was.

Yeah, knowing that trans works the other way would have been VERY helpful.

i would've started sooner if I had accepted that i was trans. I feel so much more comfortable with myself now that i don't hide under the title of "butch lesbian" (i don't even like girls). I still have a lot of dysphoria, but i am so much more comfortable dressing/acting/etc as a guy. I had heard about trans people, but never really considered that i may be one. but when i think about it. I even wore an athletic cup playing hockey without considering myself FTM (i don't know how i managed to miss that signal). I have always dressed more masculine than femme (except in high school, when this one girl referred to me as 'it').

But when I finally came out to myself I was 19, I immediately started being who i want to be, not what society thinks i should.

I cut my hair and started binding (with an ace wrap) at 16, but I didn't know what being FtM was.. I still considered myself lesbian- just masculine- and did that for about a year and a half. I came out to my friends and mom when I was about 18 and got my first legit binder. Started T at 19 and I'll be turning 20 soon.
I'm looking forward to getting my name and gender marker changed eventually, but top surgery is my main focus for transition right now.