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

[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.