"DO TRANS(SPECIALLY POST-OP) HAVE LESSER LIFE SPAN?"

- only if they lie to a straight guy about their status   

thank you for the clarification bisho

I can't speak for everyone but I personally think that the life span is dependant on various factors just as any cisperson.  Not to mention for post-ops I would imagine some of the dysphoria stress would go away making them a bit more healthy or even the cases where for some people transitioning is a life or death situation. 

Who do you think will have the longer life span?  A post-op trans who exercises and eats well and take care of their bodies or a biological cisperson who is always at high stress, morbidly obese, constantly smokes, drinks, and do drugs etc. on a daily basis?

Quote from: Happy Girl on January 14, 2012, 07:45:25 AM
I never saw a trans woman of 80-90 years old.

Perhaps because you've never met one who told you. It isn't really any of your concern, after all.

I've worked in Nursing homes for the elderly. I can't recall if any were that old. Not common to be honest, but that's to be expected, given our situation isn't either.

One I recall who needed assistance from nurses with dilation. I never did it. it was always a female. I do remember, there was no fuss what-so-ever.

Though if you have the opportunity, would you really want to live till 90 like this?

If it wasn't for my wife, I'd have gone long ago.

(A pre- everything)

While not a Post-op, the famed Virginia Prince lived to the age of 96.

meh I think surely this is an old myth to be honest. I fully expect many of you will live into your 70s I have heard this long ago about having shorter life spans, all I can say to that is "rubbish" I really think it depends on your life styles, and how well you eat, and look after your body in general.

Oh please! I'll be a very youngish looking and fit seventy next year and though I know I could get run over by a truck en-route to my mailbox tomorrow I come from a pretty good gene pool on both sides of the family. Everyone lived into their 100's except my dad and his brother who were both in their mid-nineties, probably because they both drank and smoked and my mom was the youngest at 89, she never exercised a day in her life and liked to eat.

I'm not sure about the surgeries and the hrt causing a shorter life span for myself. I do know all the drug abuse, alcohol abuse, cigerrettes, and the hurling my body into solid objects were in no way helping to live any longer oh and lets not forget that bucket of red meat that I used to eat every week. Well come to think of it the only way I got out of all that abusive behavior was to start hrt and have surgery. So in conlcusion I will live longer because of hrt and srs.

Quote from: Gretchen on February 26, 2012, 12:42:36 PM
I'm not sure about the surgeries and the hrt causing a shorter life span for myself. I do know all the drug abuse, alcohol abuse, cigerrettes, and the hurling my body into solid objects were in no way helping to live any longer oh and lets not forget that bucket of red meat that I used to eat every week. Well come to think of it the only way I got out of all that abusive behavior was to start hrt and have surgery. So in conlcusion I will live longer because of hrt and srs.

Sounds like you are on a much more positive track, it can only benefit you in the long run in keeping with the saying below!