...someone being turned down for HRT or surgery because they havent had gender dysphoria since age 3 [or a very early age]?

This be a concern of mine.

I haven't had years of dysphoria...infact I really haven't even identified as trans until last Oct....so less than a year...I have had 2 individual session with my therapist and at our next apt we are writing my letters for T & top surgery

I started T approx 4 months after I first figured out I was trans.  I had not even tried to live as male until that point, though I was always male identified I had no idea transition was possible, so played the girl role well.

A therapist will want a certain number of sessions with  you to determine you are trans.  If you truly are you have nothing to worry about.  A good therapist knows what questions to ask.

Be yourself and don't worry.


Jay

Quote from: Alex201 on April 15, 2011, 03:08:13 PM
...someone being turned down for HRT or surgery because they havent had gender dysphoria since age 3 [or a very early age]?

Not likely.
Some of us don't realise until we crash and burn in our 50's, and feel that it is a revelation.  We only realise we always felt this way after quite a few therapy sessions with a gender specialist. By that stage we have already got a pretty solid diagnosis anyway.

I am really only now coming to terms with it. I haven't lived as a man and I don't remember ever expressing that until now. I'm not exactly out yet but my therapist said that in a couple more months and with a few sessions with my parents she wouldn't mind writing me a letter to start hormones.