I wasn't premature either, I was just over two weeks late.

My birth was otherwise unremarkable; my mom guessed I was female because I didnt move much, apparently. The doctors wouldn't tell her what sex I was officially though.

Girl for sure. Then after I was born till I was 9 they said I was such a beautiful girl. The T change a lot.

My Mom was expecting a girl...that's what the doctor said..She was going to name me Jo-Anne...............little did she know,that she really did have her girl after all...My name is Jo-Anne.

My mother was told I was a boy...it even shows on the sonogram I have in my baby book...it says Baby Boy(last name)my name at birth was intended to be Andrew James or Jason Jame after my father..I was not told this story until after I "came out" as transgendered, so I chose the name Jayson but spoke with my mother about it. I told her I wanted her to decide how it got spelled before I change in legally...she asked me to by a Y in it because it's unique like me

Hahah that's interesting. My name's spelled Jayson too but after a long time after I came out my mom told me she would like it if I went by Jaxson instead but I was already out at work and to a lot of other people as Jay at that time, plus didn't think Jax would have suited me.

The only reason I put the Y in my name was because when I first came out I wasn't very comfortable so I took the androgynous route by not correcting people and just going by Jay if anyone asked. But I made a Facebook with a fake last name and different city only adding a couple of people. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted it to be Jay or Jason, I was almost too embarrassed to put Jason for some reason? Somehow by accident I got the idea to use Jayson. I think it was a typo at first. But then I liked it because I thought if I was ever in a situation where I wasn't sure what to go by I could write Jay and then depending on my comfort level just add 'son' to it.

By the time I became more comfortable and put my real last name on Facebook and added people from work and such I tried to switch it to just Jason but at that time it didn't look right anymore.

Kind of funny because my last name is very rare, I don't even think it really exists hahah very few people in the world have it but everyone spells it with a 'c'. So my first name now has an extra letter and my last name is missing one. You can imagine how many people get my whole name wrong now.

My mother didn't find out.  I was born in 77 and I guess it wasn't accurate enough for her to really care till I got here.

I'm a twin, and initially the doctors thought I didn't exist.  They thought that I was just the shadow of my brother.  When they finally figured out that there were actually two fetuses in there, though, they declared me a girl.

Well back in the 60's there weren't any ultrasounds or such like... so all we had was a mother's feelings and the obstetrician's instinct.

Initially mum said she dreamed of a dark haired boy but half way through the pregnancy she said she felt that he had died and was replaced in her mind's eye by a golden haired girl.

I am clearly both of them fused into one glorious whole.

I don't know honestly. Probably a girl.

I was born three months premature, so I had no legit genitalia at birth. However they still named me a female name. 

Quote from: Ribbons on May 01, 2011, 12:08:06 PM
I don't know honestly. Probably a girl.

I was born three months premature, so I had no legit genitalia at birth. However they still named me a female name.

Really? I've never heard of this? I was born three months premature too, at 27 weeks.

My mother never went for a scan. But they used to tell me that based on the shape of the baby, my mother's moods etc and how it kicked etc, they thought that it was a boy for sure.

I was also a premature baby, I think I was more than 1 month premature.

Female

Constipation, probably. I was never told. Although in a lot of ways, my mother did end up having... hmm... nevermind. I asked her once what she wanted, she said she wished she'd kept the placenta and dumped me in the bucket. So I don't think it made a whole lot of difference.

I was declared Male, after 3brothers before me I think my Mother was very disappointed, ''yikes not another 1'' when I transition in my teens she was very excepting, I think thats the reason why, she finally got a daughter she always wanted.

My grandmother insisted that I would be born male, despite the doctors saying female. She's very religious and told my mother that God had spoken to her through her dreams/prayer telling her she would have a grandson. I'm not a believer myself but found this interesting given how things turned out

Quote from: Da Monkey on April 26, 2011, 07:18:01 AMThe only reason I put the Y in my name was because when I first came out I wasn't very comfortable so I took the androgynous route by not correcting people and just going by Jay if anyone asked. But I made a Facebook with a fake last name and different city only adding a couple of people. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted it to be Jay or Jason, I was almost too embarrassed to put Jason for some reason? Somehow by accident I got the idea to use Jayson. I think it was a typo at first. But then I liked it because I thought if I was ever in a situation where I wasn't sure what to go by I could write Jay and then depending on my comfort level just add 'son' to it.

By the time I became more comfortable and put my real last name on Facebook and added people from work and such I tried to switch it to just Jason but at that time it didn't look right anymore.

This is the most hilarious and ironic things I've ever read. Since I was younger, I always loved the name Jason for some reason. I didn't love it because I wanted to name my future kids it either, if you get my drift. My brothers and I all had pretty plain names so it worked out for me. The funny part is. This is the exact same thing that happened to me.

In High School, instead of going by my legal first name at the time, I went up to all my teacher before class started and told them I preferred to go by "Jay" because saying "Jason" was too... you know, male. "Jay" is more... gender neutral. A couple teachers asked why I preferred it, or why they wanted them to call me it, and I told a couple. One teacher even had a relative that was a MTF. Which I thought was somewhat amusing, it was never again brought up during school. I was however in gender segregated Physical Education, which sucked on many levels. But many of the students knew, and didn't care. Or just talked crap, and I didn't care what they had to say.

To me, "Jay" just became a nickname, only my high school friends and some family call me it, but I much prefer the full "Jason" when it comes down to it. I just thought the correlation to between my story and yours' was hilarious.

I was born 3 months premature, with a collapsed lung, a heart murmur, and several under developed organs. I'm not sure how I made it through. Apparently, they used a new medicine or something, so my dad claims but he's not exactly a good source of information. My mother passed away, and my dad is not someone I converse with, but I do not know what sex they thought I was going to be. I always wondered if maybe my very very early birth kind of screwed something up, but I think that was just me searching for explanations. So I didn't feel so... crazy? My mother wasn't very happy though. From what I've heard from immediate family is, that I was supposed to be a boy. My mom thought she was having all boys. That she never wanted a girl, she wasn't supposed to have a girl, etc etc. Ironic really.

Quote from: Ratchet on May 26, 2011, 03:40:26 AM
This is the most hilarious and ironic things I've ever read. Since I was younger, I always loved the name Jason for some reason. I didn't love it because I wanted to name my future kids it either, if you get my drift. My brothers and I all had pretty plain names so it worked out for me. The funny part is. This is the exact same thing that happened to me.

In High School, instead of going by my legal first name at the time, I went up to all my teacher before class started and told them I preferred to go by "Jay" because saying "Jason" was too... you know, male. "Jay" is more... gender neutral. A couple teachers asked why I preferred it, or why they wanted them to call me it, and I told a couple. One teacher even had a relative that was a MTF. Which I thought was somewhat amusing, it was never again brought up during school. I was however in gender segregated Physical Education, which sucked on many levels. But many of the students knew, and didn't care. Or just talked crap, and I didn't care what they had to say.

To me, "Jay" just became a nickname, only my high school friends and some family call me it, but I much prefer the full "Jason" when it comes down to it. I just thought the correlation to between my story and yours' was hilarious.

Hahahahah that's funny. It's strange though because sometimes now having my legal name as Jayson I feel like that alone will out me. I always found it annoying when people name themselves like 'Kohlton', 'Jaycen', 'Ject' etc. because I find it to be a drag king-ish or like music artist-ish and wonder how they expect to be taken seriously. Then ironically enough I end up with a stupid spelled name because I was trying to save myself from embarrassing situations but I always get comments on it.

I also stuck to a J name because my mom named all of her kids with J's. And growing up as an identical twin no one could tell me and my sister apart so they just called us both J.

Quote from: Ratchet on May 26, 2011, 03:40:26 AM
I was born 3 months premature, with a collapsed lung, a heart murmur, and several under developed organs. I'm not sure how I made it through. Apparently, they used a new medicine or something, so my dad claims but he's not exactly a good source of information. My mother passed away, and my dad is not someone I converse with, but I do not know what sex they thought I was going to be. I always wondered if maybe my very very early birth kind of screwed something up, but I think that was just me searching for explanations. So I didn't feel so... crazy? My mother wasn't very happy though. From what I've heard from immediate family is, that I was supposed to be a boy. My mom thought she was having all boys. That she never wanted a girl, she wasn't supposed to have a girl, etc etc. Ironic really.

Wow that's a lot to make through. My twin and I had a hard enough time as it was and we didn't even have much wrong with us. You must have been at a really good hospital, and I imagine it was expensive depending on where you were born. I remember my parents getting a bill from the hospital that was huge, then it basically was like 'this is how much it would have cost but it's covered by OHIP' hahah. I know what you mean about trying to find something to 'explain' yourself. Sorry to hear about your mom, did she pass from giving birth or was it unrelated? That's good to know that she didn't want a girl anyway.

Quote from: Da Monkey on May 26, 2011, 07:01:53 AMI remember my parents getting a bill from the hospital that was huge, then it basically was like 'this is how much it would have cost but it's covered by OHIP' hahah. I know what you mean about trying to find something to 'explain' yourself. Sorry to hear about your mom, did she pass from giving birth or was it unrelated? That's good to know that she didn't want a girl anyway.

My dad was in the military, so they covered it. My first helicopter ride was when I was in my mom's belly. They had to fly her to the University hospital an hour and half away because they had the ability to actually keep me alive. I have no idea how much it was. I was in the hospital for 3 months as well, most of the time I spent it in the NICU. But my mother died in a car accident when I was 9. If she was still around when I came out, I don't think she would have been surprised or minded to much.

Boy.

I find it extremely interesting that most of the people in this thread were declared the sex they're transitioning into.