I was reading through some older post from other members and came across something I found true for myself. I would like to know if it was true for you also.

My transition was a dream goal ever since I was 14.
I looked up to androgynous MySpace models and wanted to be like them.
it was really lame now that I think of it.

also YouTube got me into the trans community more as well later in life.
I'd be a completely different person if the internet didn't exist.

I started with youtube and work my way to the forums here.

This here is helping me start soon :p

If it were not for the internet I'd probably be dead.

@lily, I know what you mean.

   I lived in a really small redneck town growing up so my idea of what a transexual was what i saw on tv shows like jerry springer. I had no idea you could take hormones and get surgery till i researched my "condition" on the internet, for a while i seriously thought i was the only one that felt like this.   

I was dreaming about it even pre internet
But it was internet friends what push me to do something

When I started....there was no internet.
It was the feeling deep down inside me what's drove me to the doctor for treatment

@annette where I live there are no resorces to help me.

@madusa pre internet dreaming I remember those days.

@foreveeer21chic redneck town me too. The research that I did gave me hope.

@Ellie happy transitioning

@JoeyD I was 15 when I heard of a man becoming a woman. I never forgot the conversation I heard that day. My step grandpa's brother came back from the army a woman.

Yes I believe it was the Internet. It is full of helpful resources that I wouldn't have found without it.

Browsing the web one day I came across before and after photos of FFS, right then I knew it was possible for me to transition. After that I started searching for information and resources and found it. I'm sure I would have transition anyway but the internet made it possible to do it sooner and with more support.

When I really needed what the internet could offer it was still arpanet.

Internet as we now recognize it did not exist back then...there were certainly some local dial-up BBS offerings, but that had nothing to do with my transition.  In fact, my social security card had already been changed by the time I got my first computer in the late 80's. 

The internet has done wonders for me.  I reside in a less developed country and had it not been for the internet I would have been out of touch of anything trans related.

Thank you internet!

Why? I was hospitalized and lived very part time as a girl before I ever thought to use the Internet for any information. I remember digging through a phone book to get the hospital number. I lead a sheltered, simple life.

The internet helped me realize that being trans was more than just what Jerry Springer and shockumentaries depicted. The internet made me feel less afraid of embracing my trans-ness and helped me get out of denial. I think I still would have transitioned, but probably not as soon as I have.

Quote from: jainie marlena on September 22, 2011, 08:34:20 AM
@JoeyD I was 15 when I heard of a man becoming a woman. I never forgot the conversation I heard that day. My step grandpa's brother came back from the army a woman.

My very first revelation at the age of about 8 reading about a ->-bleeped-<- man and not really being interested in what he was doing (going to some place and wearing women's clothes and makeup) but thinking they couldn't go as far as changing the body, the sex could they? That was my first revelation.

I've always known what I wasn't.  In the past it took time for people like us to come to the realisation, I think that's a common theme, nowadays it's completely thanks to the internet.

 The internet has helped me greatly. There is a great amount of information out there if you use it wisely. The internet has helped me greatly come to terms with my GID and it helps to know your not alone.

While I had seen a documentary about transitioning when I was younger, I didn't have a good idea of what it really meant at the time.  Everything I saw after that was on talk shows, and I felt kind of ashamed.  The results I've seen others have online and the information available have definitely helped give me more confidence that I have a chance to live the life I always wanted to.

When I started pursuing my transition the internet didn't exist. I was diagnosed with GD in 1984 and started researching my transition in 1990. It was quite difficult to get help and information in those days. Those of you starting out in the internet age don't know how lucky you are!