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What age did you finally do something about it ?

Started by Anatta, December 16, 2011, 06:02:42 PM

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What age did you finally do something about it ?

Early Teens
0 (0%)
Mid teens
2 (5%)
Late teens
6 (15%)
Early twenties
5 (12.5%)
Mid twenties
9 (22.5%)
Late twenties
2 (5%)
Early thirties
3 (7.5%)
Mid thirties
3 (7.5%)
Late thirties
1 (2.5%)
Early forties
2 (5%)
Mid forties
2 (5%)
Late forties
1 (2.5%)
Fifty plus
4 (10%)

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Anatta

December 16, 2011, 06:02:42 PM
Kia Ora,

::) To carry on from the first poll :
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,112331.0.html

[If you haven't already voted or viewed the above poll/thread, please feel free to participate in both]...

::) This new poll is for when you first actually spoke to a 'professional' [a gender specialist] about your condition and your desire to transition...For example for me I was in my late teens when I came out to 'myself', but I was in my mid forties before I actually did anything about it, that is, seriously started to get the transition ball rolling, doctors-psyche assessments-counselling, etc...

::) Thanks for participating in either or both polls/threads...

Metta Zenda :)
"The most essential method which includes all other methods is beholding the mind. The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included !"   :icon_yes:
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cynthialee

#1
December 16, 2011, 06:19:19 PM
I attempted to transition at 22 but the psyrink really messed with my head and filled me full of 'you just have a fetish' crap.

It wasn't until 19 years later I would be able to walk into anouther therapists office and try to start my transition again.

41
I started my transition at 41.
These last 2 years have been the best of my life. Inspite of a heart attack, bypass surgery and being more poor than I have ever been.
The last 2 years I have been ME, and that is worth it all.
So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.
Sun Tsu 'The art of War'
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stldrmgrl

#2
December 16, 2011, 10:26:49 PM
QuoteWhat age did you finally do something about it ?

Late twenties (27).
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Lily

#3
December 16, 2011, 10:59:38 PM
It was a month before turning 26 that I told someone for the first time. About half a year later I got up the courage to tell my therapist, and a few weeks later I got my hormones. :)
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Lynne

#4
December 17, 2011, 05:05:48 AM
Little more than a year ago (I was 25) I started the ball rolling, but after that things slowed down. Last month I made the situation very clear at home about my transition and went to a psychologist and a psychiatrist to get my two letters from them, which I got, so I only have to see a urologist now and I can send my gender and name change request to the government.
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Anatta

#5
December 17, 2011, 03:30:25 PM
Kia Ora,

::) According to the poll so far, it would seem the 'mid twenties' is when it got quite  serious for some...

::) It was about this time [well a little earlier-around 21] when I found it really hard to cope, hence suicide attempts and spending short stints in psyche wards...But I still couldn't tell anyone[psychiatrists] what was really going on inside my head, and they didn't ask any leading questions relating to gender identity...They just prescribed 'Valium' the wonder drug-the magic pill that 'fixed' everything...[Remember this was the early seventies]...

Metta Zenda :)
"The most essential method which includes all other methods is beholding the mind. The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included !"   :icon_yes:
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Forever21Chic

#6
December 17, 2011, 04:45:18 PM

  First time in my late teens came out to my parents at 18 then at 19 started seeing a therapist then hormones etc.

  Second time around at 24.  :(

 
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supremecatoverlord

#7
December 17, 2011, 04:49:00 PM
I came out to my parents at age sixteen, though I wasn't able to start hormones before my eighteenth birthday. :3
Meow.
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Tristan

#8
December 18, 2011, 12:13:39 PM
i started at 14. it did not go so well at first with my parents. but after my sister got prego and dropped out of college they let up off me a lot.
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michelle666

#9
December 18, 2011, 02:33:26 PM
I attempted to transition in my early 20's, I had long hair, wore makeup and mostly female clothes, I got beat up really bad and it put a huge scare into me and I stopped. I'm now 41 and am starting again.
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