I started at 37. But I wish I stated in my 20's.

I started at 27 (July of 2011).

I started a few months after my 25th birthday

  Age 58 as a birthday present.  I would be in the 19-30 group if my first sessions with a shrink were a lot better. 
  Joelene

I started self medicating with birth control pills in my early 20's (which was back in the 1980's) but I didn't start officially on HRT until I was in my 30's! I'm now a lot older.

I think those of you who can get on HRT at an earlier age, the more beneficial it will be. When I started there wasn't the internet or the help available like there is these days.

Quote from: Joelene9 on June 08, 2012, 12:09:12 AM
  Age 58 as a birthday present. I would be in the 19-30 group if my first sessions with a shrink were a lot better. 
  Joelene

Tell. Me. About. It!

I sooooo would have been the same ....

17.

I started at 18.

Puberty kicked in when I was about 15 or very early 16 I cant really remember. So I guess I got lucky, that I was a late bloomer.

I started puberty at 16 and a half so I guess I only had high amounts of testosterone in me for a few months. I wonder why I started so late but then again, I know why   

As has already been said, the worst part of transitioning a little later may be due to all the time lost.

It doesnt seem to make a difference as far as the effectiveness of the hrt in some cases, it can be just the same for a 30 something year old as a 17 year old.  I barely had a puberty at all, so not much damage done by t.

All the lost time is a major bummer though. But I plan on living as a 20 something year old for the next few years and then as a 30something year old when I'm in my 40's.

It helps when you don't age and look younger, so i will make up for lost time.

My mom looked like she was about 18 when she was hitting close to 40 and my dad has always looked way yonger than his age too.  Lucky me that this seems to be my case as well...

This doesn't change that I wanted to transiton in my teens but couldn't.  Will never get to do that now.  🙁

Did no one here have a normal puberty? It really does look like we're likely to have weird puberties for some reason.

Quote from: Joelene9 on June 08, 2012, 12:09:12 AM
  Age 58 as a birthday present.  I would be in the 19-30 group if my first sessions with a shrink were a lot better. 
  Joelene

I'm pretty sure the therapist I'm seeing is 60+ years old and he is very "old school" in his beliefs (although he is nice and takes me seriously which makes up for it some). I can only imagine what seeing a 40-60 year old therapist 30 years ago would have been like.

Quote from: A on June 08, 2012, 10:25:39 AM
Did no one here have a normal puberty? It really does look like we're likely to have weird puberties for some reason.

I probably started a bit earlier than most but it was otherwise normal. And I'll bet tons of people didn't have a completely "normal" puberty.

Quote from: A on June 08, 2012, 10:25:39 AM
Did no one here have a normal puberty? It really does look like we're likely to have weird puberties for some reason.

That raises an interesting point.  With me it was because of a very underactive pituitary gland and I'm starting to wonder also if I'm intersex as well.  I had some weird operation when I was very young (must have been before 3 years old because I can remember that far back).  My parents won't talk about the operation at all and have always just said that there was something wrong so I had an op to fix it.  That's all.  I do have another reason to suspect this too but its a bit personal

Quote from: Stephanie_b on June 08, 2012, 10:16:16 AM


It doesnt seem to make a difference as far as the effectiveness of the hrt in some cases, it can be just the same for a 30 something year old as a 17 year old. 

This doesn't change that I wanted to transiton in my teens but couldn't.  Will never get to do that now. 

Well it's true that hormones work better for a person at 17 than at 30 if we are talking about just that same person at different ages. I guess a lot of us are lucky to be starting younger but I could not imagine ever growing up as a man and living as one.

Quote from: Stephanie_b on June 08, 2012, 10:36:17 AM
That raises an interesting point.  With me it was because of a very underactive pituitary gland and I'm starting to wonder also if I'm intersex as well.  I had some weird operation when I was very young (must have been before 3 years old because I can remember that far back).  My parents won't talk about the operation at all and have always just said that there was something wrong so I had an op to fix it.  That's all.  I do have another reason to suspect this too but its a bit personal

I kept my body weight below an 18 bmi from 13-17. I read before that anorexia and low body weight can delay a girls puberty so I thought it would do the same for a boys puberty andi think it did.

Quote from: A on June 08, 2012, 10:25:39 AM
Did no one here have a normal puberty? It really does look like we're likely to have weird puberties for some reason.

I think mine was fairly "normal." I had other issues, like low calcium count in my blood and very little muscle mass. But, those were both before and after puberty, too.

I accidentally found an old topic about whether or not people had a normal puberty:
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,26033.msg193953.html

Quote from: GhostTown11 on June 08, 2012, 10:45:24 AM
Well it's true that hormones work better for a person at 17 than at 30 if we are talking about just that same person at different ages. I guess a lot of us are lucky to be starting younger but I could not imagine ever growing up as a man and living as one.

There are rare exceptions to that, I'm not going by my own knowledge or anything I'm just relaying what my Dr. Has been telling me, based on a few things.  For some reason the hrt works better for me at my age than it should, very similar to how it would have been if i were in may late teens.  There is something different about me and i don't know why.

I'm seeing some good results already and I was expecting it to be at least a month or more before noticing any changes at all. 

Just be glad that you are able to start your journey when you're so young.  It sucks to have to pretend to be a man. I was abused physically and verbally by my father and was a mess for a long time over it, and it was because I'm trans. 

That's the only reason i transitioned later instead of in my teens.

Take care, I wish you the best

Age 29. I actually just started today!!