At what age did you ladies realize that you were girls?

[hankhavelock]

Most if not all of my trans*friends tell more or less the same story. They knew their true gender from very early on. From age 5 to 7 seems to be the time. Transition may have happened later (in late teen-years when they are strong enough to stop pretending to be boys), but the realization was there soon.

Mind you, I only have Asian friends, so I wonder how it is for you Western trans*girls. How was it for you, ladies? When did you dig it? And how soon did you act on your realization?

Peace!

H

[lacey_maxie]

Originally Posted by hankhavelock

Most if not all of my trans*friends tell more or less the same story. They knew their true gender from very early on. From age 5 to 7 seems to be the time. Transition may have happened later (in late teen-years when they are strong enough to stop pretending to be boys), but the realization was there soon.

Mind you, I only have Asian friends, so I wonder how it is for you Western trans*girls. How was it for you, ladies? When did you dig it? And how soon did you act on your realization?

Peace!

H

I was 32 when I played for the first time with a vibrator and I realized that playing a macho man is not my pair of shoes anymore......

[Amy]

Around 10-12 I began having feelings I didn't understand and being confused when my parents told me not to wear my sister's dresses, etc. It wasn't until my early teens I learned about transgender concepts and could make sense of it.

[transjen]

I knew i was a girl since i was 5 or 6 and i was around 14 when i found some answers and it was then that i knew what i had to do Jennifer

[raistlin]

Well around 5 I guess I knew but didn't understand. By 11 I knew, understood, but thought it was just me and there must be something wrong with me. Here I am now over 30 and now I am not ashamed anymore but not seeking to change my lot in life really. I know some TS might burn me at the stake for saying this, but as much as I might long for and desire to be female, no matter how much I may identify with been female the fact is I have a male body and a healthy one at that. I have lost people close to me with ill health and I just am thankful that the body I have is health, which ever gender it is. Things could always be worse

[Bionca]

Birth. Seriously, it would probably have been more enlightening to find out when I figured out people thought I wasn't a girl.

[hankhavelock]

Originally Posted by Bionca

Birth. Seriously, it would probably have been more enlightening to find out when I figured out people thought I wasn't a girl.

Yup, that's an even better take on it, Missy B

[thedrift]

Interesting thread, thanks to all the ladies for sharing, even the ones that fear burning at the stake...aint no stake burnin' here tho. It's a pleasure when everyone's point of view has its space and respect.

btw, seems to make sense that the realisations happen to many ladies at an eraly age, but appears that there's really no age limit, because life makes so many different formulations and models of the basic genetic structure

[franalexes]

I just kinda grew into it. It showed up in who I played with. My preference for toys, the games I played. At 11 my brother called me "toots". At 18 he called me "tits". When I was old enough I edged away from home. Life is a process.
Boys would play with me at 5. They drifted away. When I was 25 they were interested again.

[Rachel]

I was 3 when I knew I was different. I have many memories of dressing in my sisters and mothers clothes b4 I started school at age 5. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I always had to bite my tounge and not blurt out A GIRL! or female impersonator. Seeing the few female impersonators on television back then (way back then) helped me to realize I was not alone.

[Barrackubus]

At what age in your life did you realize that you were a woman in a male body. What did you do? Was you able to.tell somebody, how did they react. How did those close to.you react when you came out of the closet, so to speak?
I don't know, with me it was that one halloween I dressed as a woman....even had a bra with.balloons as my breasts....haha...

[connie]

5 or 6, had lots of help figuring it out, the boy next door wore dresses and played lots of little games with me and my cousin

[trendy1975]

I was in my teens.