I started HRT although the results have been great.  I've seen hair regrowth in the areas of my head that were balding (it wasn't too bad before though), developed curves and my face has changed loads.  I had a quite naturally feminine body though which probably helped things but 30 is still a young age to transistion.

The younger you are does have some advantage over older people who transition later in life, however in saying that I've know people in their twenties that had not had good results on HRT and their bodies did not morph through fat redistribution and boob growth on the other hand some others 50+ have had great results on HRT. These have had no ffs either. When it comes down to it, it still is genetics and how many estrogen receptors are in your body and that counts for those born biologically male too.

Some males have large amounts of estrogen receptors and thus in transition HRT does a great deal. I didn't start my transition until late but have had wonderful results on HRT. One other factor I found is that after GRS the effects of HRT is even more astounding. Its therefore never to late to be yourself.

Stardust

In my 30's (31, turn 32 in November) and in the very earliest of stages, early to the point of having one therapy appointment thus far.

I'm excited about things and at times want to rush the process as much as possible.

At other times still have very real worries in my head, that I have to work through. Mainly the employment situation. I'm currently the night supervisor at a local grocery store and there is just no way I'm going to able to keep the same job... no iffs ands or buts about it.

If it wasn't for fears about finding and maintaining employment, I would be more than happy to start HRT as soon as the next day or two. Just cannot shake that one issue though.

I just checked my ID.
My birthday was a little over a week ago. However......
Houston we have a problem.
The same said ID is saying something about Michy being, gasp, 35!!! Thirty-five? Where the frack did the time go? It seems like yesterday I was 25.

Whoever said, "tomorrow never comes". LIED.

Well by the looks of this thread I M in good company.

Have you ever looked through the pages on TS women successes at Lynn Conway's site?
I'm pretty sure there are a number of examples there of people who transitioned in their 30's.  I believe Lynn Conway did herself but it was many years ago and you are probably looking for more recent examples.

Donna Rose would be one there is a lot of public information about. She transistioned in her late 30's, I believe -about 10 years ago.  Among other things she operates a recovery house in Scottsdale as an option for patients who have SRS surgery with Dr. Meltzer

<--------------- points at avatar. I'm 30, though I started hormones 2 months before my 30th. So it's not all doom and gloom you know.

Quote from: Helena on February 07, 2011, 07:09:04 AM
<--------------- points at avatar. I'm 30, though I started hormones 2 months before my 30th. So it's not all doom and gloom you know.

I have seen your pictures from a ways back, your really coming along nice.  Looking good.

I am in my mid 30s, started transition at 31.  Made a lot of progress through hard work.



Still need to fix my nose though, for medical reasons as well as cosmetic.

sometimes i forget when i look in the mirror that it's actually less than a year since i started my transition.

Quote from: Helena on February 07, 2011, 10:58:34 AM
sometimes i forget when i look in the mirror that it's actually less than a year since i started my transition.

Wait till you hit 2 years, thats when the goodness starts.

It just flies by...I hit the six months on HRT mark back at the end of january and I just know that I'll be at the 1 year mark before i know it.

It also depends on when ye were born...

Now in the 21st cent year 2000+....Dr's are at least far more open familiar with it, as a treatable condition... and treatment programmes/tools are in place for kids... and youngsters... which is when its best to start.

When i was born in the late 1950s.... it was all a mystery...swept under the carpet....

By the time i'd figured out what was 'wrong' we were into the 1970s... even then trying to get any conventional Dr's to admit they knew about it all or what to do...was like extracting blood from a stone...

And GID clinics didn't really exist at all... hormones in the main were black-market.

Twas too more or less still at a pioneering field/stage...lol And 1960s charecters such as April Ashley had lived in what would term the twilight zone...

Paris had a TG community in the Pigalle.... notorious at the time... and then of course there was Andy, the factory and Candy Darling...

My how we've come a long way since then....

Woe is me, as of yesterday I must tender my resignation to this thread. Can anyone point me to the "Transitioning in your 40's" thread? lol.

Quote from: Melody Maia on February 11, 2011, 04:20:17 PM
Woe is me, as of yesterday I must tender my resignation to this thread. Can anyone point me to the "Transitioning in your 40's" thread? lol.

Start one Melody, I'll join, lol. Well technically I started at 49 but now 52 and finished, lol.

Stardust

You guys don't have to leave!!

Quote from: Madelyn on February 11, 2011, 05:21:07 PM
You guys don't have to leave!!

guys? not any more, got rid of the guy bits, lol.

stardust

Since I started this thread looking for encouragement from others who started around the same time I did I thought I'd provide a little update.

I started HRT in the beginning of April and am almost 8 weeks into HRT. I started a week after my 34th birthday.

Thank you all for your responses, and if there's anyone else out there that's thinking of transitioning in your 30's, just know that there are others of us out there that are also on this path.

Although I'm only early stages, I'm getting ready to transition.
I could have done this at 22 / 23 except I was too transient and not really settled enough. Nor Mature or financial.

At 25 I begun a relationship that finished sadly a few months back with passing of my partner of nine years. I told her from the very beginning that how I saw myself and it churned in my head all these years.

Now at 35, it is now or never. I am more financial, Mature, knowledgeable, have a place that I can call my own.

I see transition taking 5 years for me. That's only a ball park figure but hope to start HRT in the next year, starting to come out of the closet now, just have to be more settled with jobwise, after all, a girl has to work.

I don't think it really matters when we transition, there are no right or no wrong answers

having just hit 38 yesterday I guess I just say qualify for this thread

Quote from: Madelyn on May 21, 2011, 06:16:26 PM
Since I started this thread looking for encouragement from others who started around the same time I did I thought I'd provide a little update.

I started HRT in the beginning of April and am almost 8 weeks into HRT. I started a week after my 34th birthday.

Thank you all for your responses, and if there's anyone else out there that's thinking of transitioning in your 30's, just know that there are others of us out there that are also on this path.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that you are 34!

that's every bit of 10 years more than i thought.