How old were you when you knew you were transsexual?

[andrea_shemale]

for me, i have always known and always lived as a girl. i am lucky to have such a supportive family. And i just wanted to here the stories of others like me

[hankhavelock]

Originally Posted by andrea_shemale

for me, i have always known and always lived as a girl. i am lucky to have such a supportive family. And i just wanted to here the stories of others like me

The majority I know here knew from very early childhood that they were not "like the other boys". Transsition usually occurs a bit later, though, late teens and early twenties. But I have a friend who took the turn in his/her late fifties...

[sissyfagbottom]

I started wearing my sister's clothes when I was 4. I used to model a little yellow ballerina tutu for her. As I got older she didn't like it as much when I dressed up in her clothes. But now she goes shopping with me and helps me pick out outfits and such.

[sweettsuk]

I was 4 when I knew I was Female, did not know what a transsexual was till I was about 20, now I am post op I don't consider myself Ts just a female same as I always have just with the right bits, transsexual is just a label to describe something in between, a journey I guess, some go the whole way some don't

[Sammitranni]

As long as I can recall, lol. I started acting on it by basically just 'being' a girl by around 5.

[katieayanami]

i dont remember the age i just remember putting on my moms pantyhose.
i got caught a few times but i was so young they did not think much of it.

[JodieTs]

How old were you when you knew you were transsexual?
I first worked it out 2? years ago.
I remember the exact date: 07-13-2008
About 10 seconds after reading your thread.

Thank you so much; your posting has redefined every aspect of my life,
& I've now got tits!

[Melissa Pink]

I repressed my feminine feelings for many years. When I was young I read Christina Jougenson's biography and really identified with her. I later read Myra Breckinridge and enjoyed it's wit and her kinky attitude toward life. I wrote my feelings off and lived a conventional life for many years as a heterosexual male and spent a career in the military. About four years ago I found myself single for the first time in many years. I began chatting on line in a variety of transgender and crossdressing sites like www.crossdressers.com and www.urnotalone.com I felt less isolated and realized my feelings weren't abnormal. I began to develop my feminine persona and explore the world of transgenderism.

Initially, I thought I was a crossdresser. At first I "dressed" in clothing, lingerie, shoes and wigs and spent hours giving myself make overs. After about six months I ventured out for the first time with the encouragement of my friend Celeste who has been every supportive of me. Over time, self discovery and counseling I came to the realization that I am a transgender. I've been living full time as a woman for about six months and on HRT for nearly four months. It hasn't been easy but no where near as hard as I thought it would be. I live in a city with a good network of GLBT resources and have met many friends on line. Psychologically, emotionally and sexually I am very much a woman and the physical aspect is work in progress.


This is an exciting part of my life and I have no regrets about the decisions I have made regarding my gender.

[Something_Sweet]

I knew since I was born that I wanna be a girl. I was born this way. ^^

[Be_my_nude]

Such a good thread, as with others like it. So many members are so porn-hungry they forget the need for empathy and understanding towards those members who have had to meet and confront their own gender issues, and all those who are still coming to an acceptance of their sexuality who may not have been fortunate enough to have counselling / therapy support

Most educative and encouraging !

Oh, and by the way, in case I may have given a porn-negative impression, I am a great supporter of lust - nothing like it Very skirt-uplifting ! !

Luv to all

[stephanie4life]

Myself personally I've always been attracted to feminine things. I've always wanted to be a around women and be part of that life style so I guess I could say since birth.

[brendanorton]

I've always wanted to be a woman but never got the chance to talk to anybody, so I was a bit late, at 18 started dressing up home alone and at 23 I went out dressed like a woman on the street for the very first time, what an experience!

[KittyKaiti]

For as long as I can remember I've wanted to be a girl and hated being a boy. The feelings intensified as years went by. Most things I did leaned feminine, often preferring to play with my sisters toys than my own, while though I did play with my own. I also enjoyed playing pretend, house and other imagination games and every time played a female role and hated being forced to be a boy in any play in either pretend/house etc or with toys. At one point during childhood I thought I was physically turning into a girl, why, I dunno. I spent frequent time day dreaming/desiring to get out of this life as a boy into my teens and started to try and express this by finding old clothes from my sister to try dressing as a girl in. I had told my mother on several occasions I either wanted to be a girl or that I thought I was turning into one. I had gained access to the internet in my mid to late teens and learned of the term crossdresser, while I never identified as a man with a sexual fetish, its the only explanation I had to my feelings. I had gone out, met a few people and met this one transsexual who had literally just begun transition, she was in her 50's but she told me alot of things I should look into and that when I discovered gender identity disorder, transsexualism and learned of the existence of transsexuals and found out that it was actually medically possible for a person like me to become what I've always wanted and believed I should have been. So at age 20 I informed my sister I would begin living as a woman and showed her all the information I had learned and from there began the process of informing everyone else, began living as a woman "full time" and because of my mother's oppression, moved out with two roommates who were also transgender, one was a transsexual, the other a hermaphrodite. I acquired internet hormones at age 21, got a doctor by age 23 and started official prescription hormones this year, having been on internet hormones for two years previous (about 2 1/2 years of HRT). I've been diagnosed by a hospital in Westchester County, NY as having GID and Transsexualism and then again by a gender therapy doctor in Schenectady also GID and my endocrinology diagnosis code is "Transsexualism".

[sheena bee]

its been about a year now that i been getting into the coming out stage, purely due to the exposure and information with internet access. But my derire started about puberty when id out of curiousity tried on a pair of my aunts high heels. Id never wanted to stop doing feminine stuff. The family strong religious and conservative lifestyle has been a strong part suppresing my desires but im glad to have met other here that is giving me encouragement to be my true self.

[T.S.Severe]

Whenever I try to explain myself, people think I'm joking...unless they really know me well, in which case I don't need to explain anything. Anyway, I'll talk about it here and if people want to roll their eyes, it's okay.

I'm a genetic girl, but since about the time I hit puberty, probably before then, I've always identified most closely with being a gay male. A lot of my friends and even some of my family members just assumed I was a lesbian because of the way I dress, the way I speak and behave. As a teenager and into college, I was very "butch" and the boys I found myself attracted to were small, thin, pretty guys with long hair, jewelry, and all that. Boys who looked like girls, basically, and I used to hang out with the Emo crowd just because that was the place to find guys like that. It makes me laugh now, but it's true.

Unfortunately, most of the guys I liked, weren't interested in me. If the boy was straight, he wanted a girly girl. If the boy was gay, he might find me interesting, but I didn't have a cock, so...Not that interesting. I ended up with a lot of gay male friends. It's just not that easy to find a straight, cross-dressing boyfriend to take to the senior prom. If I had been a lesbian, there were a surprisingly large number of opportunities to hook up, but the idea of kissing another girl, let alone going down on her, sorta turned me off in a big way.

In college, I met a number of pre-op M2F transsexuals, most of them in the very early stages of transitioning. I admired those people a lot and became quite close with one of them, she's still one of my best friends to this day. I did consider transitioning F2M, but not seriously. I'm not that brave, for one thing, and I don't suffer any sort of identity crises, if you will. I'm pretty used to my body and I've never really had a problem with it, so...I just wish I had a cock and balls, you know? I mean, I got depressed for awhile, but worked through it and I do wear dresses and worry about my hair and lipstick. I'm not running around in boots and flannel shirts all the time, although I do love that stereotype.

So for me, the reason I'm at a forum like this, and the reason I like to write TG fiction and all that, is simply that I fantasize about having a pre-op, fully functional M2F partner for purely sexual reasons. I'm not going to pretend it's anything else. And my other reason is that I would love to be a pre-op, fully functional M2F transsexual. I'd make a good shemale, you know? I truly wish I'd been born a male just so I could transition, at least partially, into a female.

But of course, if I'd been born anyone else, I wouldn't be me and I'd probably feel a lot differently about the subject. None of my TG friends were very content with their lives. They had and continue to have some serious issues that I don't envy. Making that change has to be one of the most difficult things to do in the world and I love and respect them all, but the fantasy is a far cry from the reality. I'm happy enough with who I am and how my life turned out, and places like this feed my fantasies, so...I'm pretty lucky, right? That's my story, for what it's worth.

[shemaleari91]

I knew I was different when I was in early elementary school,I just didn't know exactly what the difference was until I was around 12 and that is being transgendered.

[dana295]

when did I know I knew when I was 20 started dressing before that but thought something was bad wrong with me. I came out online when I was 24. offline its a badily kept secret lol

[DavidJones1985]

I think I was around 20-21

[carolinejeo]

I always remember wanting to be a girl. I first started dressing in girls clothes before I went to school.

Unfortunately in those days there was no understanding of transsexuality.

i finally changed in my 50s.

[eternalflame]

I came out as M2F transgirl about 2 weeks ago after years of repressing it because of my family