I just recently transitioned.

So have I

Quote from: Cindy James on September 11, 2012, 04:12:40 AM
So have I

i'm 19 now. I've only transitioned for like, 3 months now.

cunctation since 23
go full time this year so 26 (and I'm sad I don't do it much earlier, it was simpler than I expect)

I'm 59. I've been FT for about three months but I've been 'out' for many years. I told my parents that I was female when was 13. Many years ago in a different word. I didn't know what I was and to be sure they didn't have a clue.

A lot has changed and I'm very grateful that I can help young men and young woman to accept themselves and to not have the torture that many of us oldies have had to deal with.

I say that with sorrow not with disrespect.


I have been delighted in how I have been accepted. Obviously at my age many people know me at a professional level and to 'suddenly' be female is a shock to them.
How have you found acceptance at a young age?

Cindy

Quote from: Abracadabra on September 11, 2012, 04:47:25 AM
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Geex your old (sorry I had to throw that in) Mea Culpa

Hugs

CJ

Started therapy and hormones at 24. Though, if I had kept things up as they were going, I would have been much older before I did anything. It's been just about 10 months since I started transitioning.

Quote from: TessaM on September 11, 2012, 04:53:19 AM
Acceptance was practically a non issue. Yes, I lost a few friends, but ive gained so many more. and I guess 19-20 is young, but believe me, I wish I did it even younger! I could have had a female high school experience. Oh well.

It is funny on how perspectives change, I once thought that being able to leave the house 'in drag' was an aim - I was about 19 at that time. Now I do not even own any male clothes, I have no perspective or even feeling (I'm searching for an adjective) in describing how normal I feel. I think until you accept yourself that you have no brain/self/body/ID communication. 

I'm sorry if this takes the thread else where but I think it is pertinent. I'm on holidays at the moment and just catching up on daily stuff that gets out of hand.  So I booked myself in for some waxing, got my nails topped up, booked a hairdresser appointment: it wasn't until this afternoon that it dawned on me. I was living my life as me. All of my life I have been living in shadow.

I felt normal.

Cindy

Quote from: Cindy James on September 11, 2012, 05:08:53 AMSo I booked myself in for some waxing, got my nails topped up, booked a hairdresser appointment: it wasn't until this afternoon that it dawned on me. I was living my life as me. All of my life I have been living in shadow.

I felt normal.

Cindy

What a great realization that mustve been Thats nice!

For me, I started transition at 15, going to my GP to get the ball rolling etc, but with the hurdles in the NHS and my family struggling alot with it the first few years, I wasnt able to fully live "full time" as me untill I moved out at 18. Though this is still young, I too wish I could have started younger. I used to pester and pester my Mum at age 5,6,7 ish, to let me live as a boy. I had my hair at at age 8, and only wore boys clothes anyway. Oh, if only that had lead to beginning transition that early :p

And Ill be 22 in a couple months, if that makes any difference.

Quote from: Abracadabra on September 11, 2012, 05:14:22 AM
Some things just ARE - if you live long enough you'll get there no doubt.
Just wait and see - like it or not.

Note: Nobody wants to get old - yet nobody wants to die... hum.

Axx

I was watching an awful movie the overnight called 'Highlander' the premise was that some people could live for ever, not a new story line as we know.

I was in two minds.  I came down to no. Even if I was healthy and had all of my functions.

Sorry for getting off topic.

Quote from: Make_It_Good on September 11, 2012, 05:17:42 AM
What a great realization that mustve been Thats nice!

For me, I started transition at 15, going to my GP to get the ball rolling etc, but with the hurdles in the NHS and my family struggling alot with it the first few years, I wasnt able to fully live "full time" as me untill I moved out at 18. Though this is still young, I too wish I could have started younger. I used to pester and pester my Mum at age 5,6,7 ish, to let me live as a boy. I had my hair at at age 8, and only wore boys clothes anyway. Oh, if only that had lead to beginning transition that early :p

And Ill be 22 in a couple months, if that makes any difference.

Did you get hormone blockers to stop puberty?

Quote from: Cindy James on September 11, 2012, 04:45:59 AM
I'm 59. I've been FT for about three months but I've been 'out' for many years. I told my parents that I was female when was 13. Many years ago in a different word. I didn't know what I was and to be sure they didn't have a clue.

Cindy

What's "ft".

From my ticker you can see I've been on T a week, however I transitioned legally and socially around 4 years ago when I was 19. I wasn't going to let the gatekeepers stop me from living as a the man I should have been in the first place, I cannot fathom how miserable I would be now if I had continued living as a woman the whole time I'd been waiting for hormones.

and FT means "full time" 

Quote from: Cindy James on September 11, 2012, 05:25:27 AM

Did you get hormone blockers to stop puberty?

No unfortunately. My family wouldnt allow any medical treatment aslong as I was living with them (but they are great and supportive now )
  Also, I hit that dreaded wrong puberty early (age 9), so alot of the damage was done, so I was more focussed on just getting T. In the end, all the fighting and waiting was worth it :p

I'm pre-everything. My wife made me promise I wouldn't go full-time until my son graduates high school (he's a senior at the school where I work). That will put off my transition until 52 at the earliest.

Started hrt just before my 41st birthday and changed my name legally at 43 and I guess that is when I count it as being fulltime for me.

I was misgendered at birth, as a consequence I was forced to transition to a Male role at the tender age of 4 or 5 years old. The pressure (serious beatings) to keep the male role continued unabated until I turned 14 years old. What you know, by age 15 I had turned economically independent, and at 5:11 with a second degree black belt few people could intimidate. Nevertheless I continued to play the male role while maintaining an androgynous appearance until a few years ago when I DE-TRANSITION to my gender matching role

54, and that was 4 years ago.  Started HRT in January and was FT in September of the same year.

I transitioned at 34

26 (therapy/HRT) or 27 (full time/SRS) depending how you're counting.

Kind of scared I waited too long to ever really be okay. Was pretty self-destructive pre-transition. Lots of scars and bad memories.

Better now, happier now. But still wish a lot of the things in my head weren't there.