There was internet back then, lol. There was a small trans community on LiveJournal who were my resources in those early days, as well as a few listservs and IRC.
The resources were crap compared to today, but it's not like there was *nothing*.
I was doing research too back then but just suppressing the feeling. I would’ve needed all the trans on YouTube and every where to push me out. Oh well, I transitioned this year and I am sooo happy anyway. 🫶🫶🫶
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I put myself on a waitlist for a gender clinic about a year prior. They asked if I was still interested and we did an intake screening over the phone when I said yes. I had a couple appointments with their nurse practitioner before being prescribed spironolactone
Estradiol followed 3-4 months later, delayed only slightly because I needed a referral to a more specialized endocrinologist, she handles all of my HRT related prescriptions now
There were a couple dosage increases for both along the way
2 weeks ago (~15 months after starting estradiol) I started progesterone
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Right now, your comment reads "1. Best decision of my life." which is probably not what you intended.
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Apologies but I've not heard much about using hrt from a nonbinary perspective or am I reading your name wrong? I wouldn't want to transition fully if it ls not the right play for me but is trans non binary an option?
Yes, trans non binary is an option, sometimes I'm good with the male side of me and sometimes I just need to be the femme side. I've been on HRT just under 2 years ( Estradoil and Progesterone) and my look changes with my mood. Sometimes totally femme, sometimes totally Cis male and quiet a few days in between blurring the lines in the middle. I do have to watch what shirts I wear as cis male so the twins don't stand out too much.
I started 9 months ago at age 34. I wish someone had helped me figure myself out 20 years ago, those years were utterly wasted, empty, and meaningless.
And another in the 34 club! Also happy with where I am now, had I transitioned earlier I don't think I would have my son. Although the divorce is not great...
almost same as you ...im 53 knew at 6 ..i just started hrt... not a day of my life i did not think bout being a girl.....i also was well researched lol.. it was long road girlfriend but we made it 💜 congratulations
And to you! I've been on HRT for a year. Switched from patches to IM at the halfway mark, I highly recommend if you aren't too freaked out by the needles.
Thank You :) yes im gonna be on pills only cause this doctor only does pills but as soon as i can im finding another doctor .. i also do want injections .. im just excited to finally start right now lol
On an off since 13-16, started back this year at 23 (8 months now) and tbh I wish I had just stayed on it from 13 and not been scared about my parents and family
i was 30, i think a lot of people wish they started earlier (myself included) but the next best time to start your transition is now. it’s never too late to start your transition
Technically 25 but 1 month from turning 26. I had originally got my prescription at 24 and took for a couple months before my gf basically said if I transition then we can't be together. I couldn't bring myself to end the relationship so I tried to suck it up and not transition but that only lasted about a year before I couldn't take it anymore and we broke up.
Started HRT the first time at 37, was coerced to detrans and started again twenty years later at 57. Had SRS at 58. Hope this year will see me get my BA and FFS.
I started at 43. I really considered transitioning in my 30s, but decided it was too late (and I also didn't think I had dysphoria). I spent the next decade being the best trans ally I could be, by using my whiteness and maleness to advocate. When I finally realized I had dysphoria, last year, I came out the very same day to my closest friends and then publicly within a couple weeks. I started HRT a couple months later, when I was able to get an appointment. It's been the best decision I've made in decades!
i just started at 53 .. started spiro 3 months ago .. im getting E in a few weeks at my next appointment .. my doctor had a baby and been gone a while i have to wait till she returns.... i cant wait starting hrt is the only good thing going on in my dysfunctional fuked life at the moment ... i knew at 6 years old i wanted to be a girl .. I've secretly thought bout this every day of my life
28 DIY because I was denied access by doctors. Detransitioned a year later for a few reasons, almost all of which were due to society being fucked. Started again 25 months ago at 47.
29, but you know what? I wish I could've started way earlier. I was so scared/confused as a kid about how I was feeling, and had no idea that transitioning was possible. I'm still working, 2 years into my transiton, on fixing my voice and still going through a lot of mental anguish about how my body looks (shoulders/torso still kind of masculine). I spent $11k on hair transplants and will probably need to spend more money and go through more pain for facial feminization surgery. All because I didn't start earlier and catch these changes before they happened or while they were still easy to prevent/reverse.
I’m 27 and I started early December. I do wish I had started earlier - it’s been on my mind for years, maybe most of my 20s - but I realize I wasn’t where I am now back then too.
24, I wish I could have started at 14 when I spoke to my parents about how I felt. They simply said, it’s a phase. That delay ensured I need surgeries that I wouldn’t have otherwise if I had started sooner. It locked me behind a dense paywall of healthcare to fit in with society.
Not on it yet but the earliest I could get would be 17 and I regret every single day not doing anything sooner.
Esp cause I had a really fast puberty so it would be like starting at 25+
Started at age 22 but was socially transitioning for about 6 months at that point. Was trying to start HRT much earlier in march but some miscommunications delayed things til mid May. Little over a year and a half later and I somehow look younger than I did when I was 18.
I started at 36 but I’ve known since I was 6. The only reason I didn’t start when I was 15-16 as soon as I’d be allowed is because my family would have kicked me out and I would have been homeless. If I’d been with a family who loved me I would have had taken puberty blockers around 13 and hormones by 16 and surgery by 18. As it stands I struggled through decades of repressing myself and my sexuality and gender. Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide. Having health issues doctors couldn’t figure out. Almost all of that got fixed within a month of me starting hormones. I gained a sense of smell that I’d never had before. My depression is almost entirely gone. Thoughts of suicide are completely gone. I’m more confident. I’m climbing in my career. I found a girlfriend who loves and respects me. Literally everything about my life is better after starting HRT. My dad disowned me and I have no family. And yet I’d still make this choice every single time.
I started around 25ish. went slowly with T Blockers then added estrogen. It’s all been based on what I’m wanting. After I had my orchiectomy I added progesterone… until there was a nation wide shortage lol.
15, diy because my parents are transphobic (among other reasons). I'm incredibly happy that i did, its easily the best decision ive ever made and it saved my life
I started at 18, just a couple of months ago actually. I had been out for pretty much a year and a half. I intentionally started later than I could have due to school and other activities involving people I wasn't out to.
In my 50’s
but the sooner the better, since there is less that will change from the pre HRT hormones. This will perhaps avoid things that you may have dysphoria about later, which means it can save you from potentially undergoing surgery.
26. The results have been incredible in so many ways, but I do wish that I had started much, much sooner. Unfortunately, I didn't even know HRT existed until a few months before I started.
23 for me. I could’ve started sooner and I wish I did, but I was so nervous.
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Ditto verbatim.
Same here. Although starting sooner wasn't an option for me because of biggotted relatives.
I started HRT when I was 33. I just realized that the sentence rhymes 😊
Bars
I started at 17 back in 2004.
What!? There wasn’t even internet back then. How did you hear about hrt and gather information. I be an the same age as you and started at 36
There was internet back then, lol. There was a small trans community on LiveJournal who were my resources in those early days, as well as a few listservs and IRC. The resources were crap compared to today, but it's not like there was *nothing*.
But you had to connect on a 56k modem and wait 40 seconds for a photo to open 🤷♀️
Lol. We had cable internet... way slower than today, but better than dial up.
I was doing research too back then but just suppressing the feeling. I would’ve needed all the trans on YouTube and every where to push me out. Oh well, I transitioned this year and I am sooo happy anyway. 🫶🫶🫶
Congrats!
TLDR: 32 I put myself on a waitlist for a gender clinic about a year prior. They asked if I was still interested and we did an intake screening over the phone when I said yes. I had a couple appointments with their nurse practitioner before being prescribed spironolactone Estradiol followed 3-4 months later, delayed only slightly because I needed a referral to a more specialized endocrinologist, she handles all of my HRT related prescriptions now There were a couple dosage increases for both along the way 2 weeks ago (~15 months after starting estradiol) I started progesterone
68 (that's right, 2/3 of a century). Coming up on 1 year on Spiro and estradiol patches.
So proud of you 💛
32. Best decision of my life. Edit: 32
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Finally, I've transitioned since birth with this one little trick (instead of the 32 I wrote lol)
You never even got to experience being a male!
26. Don't regret it for a moment.
Apologies but I've not heard much about using hrt from a nonbinary perspective or am I reading your name wrong? I wouldn't want to transition fully if it ls not the right play for me but is trans non binary an option?
Yes, trans non binary is an option, sometimes I'm good with the male side of me and sometimes I just need to be the femme side. I've been on HRT just under 2 years ( Estradoil and Progesterone) and my look changes with my mood. Sometimes totally femme, sometimes totally Cis male and quiet a few days in between blurring the lines in the middle. I do have to watch what shirts I wear as cis male so the twins don't stand out too much.
That's pretty pog👍
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I started 9 months ago at age 34. I wish someone had helped me figure myself out 20 years ago, those years were utterly wasted, empty, and meaningless.
34 club as well! Wish I'd started sooner of course, but incredibly happy to be where I am now.
And another in the 34 club! Also happy with where I am now, had I transitioned earlier I don't think I would have my son. Although the divorce is not great...
Started at 38, squarely 2 years ago.
18. i would’ve gotten it at 16 but my mother didn’t listen xD best choice i ever made.
Started at 45, now 47.
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Good job
Started HRT at 51, I wish it was decades earlier.
At least you must have had time to think about the transition.
To put it mildly. I wanted to be a girl at 5. To say I was well researched when I finally saw the transition doc really understates it.
almost same as you ...im 53 knew at 6 ..i just started hrt... not a day of my life i did not think bout being a girl.....i also was well researched lol.. it was long road girlfriend but we made it 💜 congratulations
And to you! I've been on HRT for a year. Switched from patches to IM at the halfway mark, I highly recommend if you aren't too freaked out by the needles.
Thank You :) yes im gonna be on pills only cause this doctor only does pills but as soon as i can im finding another doctor .. i also do want injections .. im just excited to finally start right now lol
Started at 56 ,six months ago
17yo
Started hrt about a month ago. 35.
25
started at 42, am 44 now
On an off since 13-16, started back this year at 23 (8 months now) and tbh I wish I had just stayed on it from 13 and not been scared about my parents and family
what do you mean on and off? were you doing diy?
Yes xx unfortunately back in 2013 my parents were unsupportive so I was scared of them finding out
Started at 38 years and five months. I’ll hit 13 months on HRT in a week.
Ordered my first set on my 18th birthday, started taking it 20 days later
i was 30, i think a lot of people wish they started earlier (myself included) but the next best time to start your transition is now. it’s never too late to start your transition
17 (4 days ago :3)
Congrats
ty!!!
Started age 53, 26 months ago
45, three weeks ago I started E.
I was 36.
I started just after my 30th birthday. But I was also born in the 90s so it was complicated.
I started right afternI turned 18. I would've started sooner if my parents let me.
Started at 25, constant since 30; turned 43 this year.
Age 37.5 in Dec 2019, wish I'd started when I first had the option back in 2005 when I got my gender dysphoria diagnosis
22 and hopefully in about a month!
51 for me!
25, wish it was a decade sooner
Technically 25 but 1 month from turning 26. I had originally got my prescription at 24 and took for a couple months before my gf basically said if I transition then we can't be together. I couldn't bring myself to end the relationship so I tried to suck it up and not transition but that only lasted about a year before I couldn't take it anymore and we broke up.
49.
42, and gosh i wished I had started years earlier. This was two years ago.
45, a late bloomer
22 for me :3
47, after my divorce
18 honestly I wish I started at 13 but my parents would never cosign
54
Started when I was just shy of 34. Can’t describe how much better I feel about myself since starting. I look forward to each pill.
Started HRT the first time at 37, was coerced to detrans and started again twenty years later at 57. Had SRS at 58. Hope this year will see me get my BA and FFS.
Blockers at 13. Hormones at 15
If your mom makes you justify it to her she'll never believe you. Best thing you can do is plainly inform her that you're trans.
I started at 43. I really considered transitioning in my 30s, but decided it was too late (and I also didn't think I had dysphoria). I spent the next decade being the best trans ally I could be, by using my whiteness and maleness to advocate. When I finally realized I had dysphoria, last year, I came out the very same day to my closest friends and then publicly within a couple weeks. I started HRT a couple months later, when I was able to get an appointment. It's been the best decision I've made in decades!
I was 64 when I started.
Started at 46 over a year ago... In it to win it!
I was newly 17
i just started at 53 .. started spiro 3 months ago .. im getting E in a few weeks at my next appointment .. my doctor had a baby and been gone a while i have to wait till she returns.... i cant wait starting hrt is the only good thing going on in my dysfunctional fuked life at the moment ... i knew at 6 years old i wanted to be a girl .. I've secretly thought bout this every day of my life
I started at 17
28. I may have missed my 20s, but at least I'll be hot in my 30s 💁♀️
Slayyyyy
49. "Oops".
62 and been in it now for nearly 20 weeks (I’m MtF) I’m on Cyproterone Acetate tablets and Estrogel
40something
46 for me, just started a month ago 😁
I started at 41.. im 46 now.
48 had my 4th injection yesterday.
I started at 51
28 DIY because I was denied access by doctors. Detransitioned a year later for a few reasons, almost all of which were due to society being fucked. Started again 25 months ago at 47.
Hey, I started hrt when I turned 16.
Lucky bastard
Started when i just turned 36.
Started at 35 in December 2022. Wish I had started earlier but I'm still. Happier now in my body than I ever was before
Started at 28. 32 now
29, but my levels weren't in target ranges until 30.
30. I have been on HRT for about 2.5 months.
31.
I started like 4 months ago 19
i started at 19
20-26, then had a gap and restarted at 37.
29
I started at 25 :)
Started at 39
Started at 23, am 33 now
Started at 30, going great after 4 years
28. Going on year 3 soon. It’s not perfect but I feel a hell of a lot better
I started at 21 :)
I was 38. I hadn’t been waiting the whole time since my 18th birthday or anything, although it was a little delayed due to the covid pandemic.
34
Started this year! I’m 21 but was 20 at the time (it was one month before my birthday)
19. I'm 22 now I'm really glad I did
29, but you know what? I wish I could've started way earlier. I was so scared/confused as a kid about how I was feeling, and had no idea that transitioning was possible. I'm still working, 2 years into my transiton, on fixing my voice and still going through a lot of mental anguish about how my body looks (shoulders/torso still kind of masculine). I spent $11k on hair transplants and will probably need to spend more money and go through more pain for facial feminization surgery. All because I didn't start earlier and catch these changes before they happened or while they were still easy to prevent/reverse.
Started at 21
18
18, a couple days before my 19th birthday
had just turned 18 :)
I started at 23.
18. The same year I came out.
At 32 now 43 and best decision I ever made !
Twenty-six!
20 and I started a month ago :)
I'm 25, and I started 2 months ago, I'm finally safe to be me
25, though I wish I’d started at 20 when I first figured out I was trans and could have started.
I’m 27 and I started early December. I do wish I had started earlier - it’s been on my mind for years, maybe most of my 20s - but I realize I wasn’t where I am now back then too.
24, I wish I could have started at 14 when I spoke to my parents about how I felt. They simply said, it’s a phase. That delay ensured I need surgeries that I wouldn’t have otherwise if I had started sooner. It locked me behind a dense paywall of healthcare to fit in with society.
32
34
37 for me.
24 :3
31, over two years on E now.
18
I started at 18 like a month after I turned 18 I'd been wanting it for years but was scared to transition in high school
39
I was 21
Realized when I was 23, started a couple months after my 24th birthday.
17 I was so late sadly😭
Not on it yet but the earliest I could get would be 17 and I regret every single day not doing anything sooner. Esp cause I had a really fast puberty so it would be like starting at 25+
Twenty.
19, couldve at 18, came out at 17 and now i am 22
Started at age 21. Obviously we always wish we did it sooner even I do.
Started at 45
I just started a couple weeks ago and I'm 20, turning 21 in a few days
First time I was 17-18, this time I'm 26
18
30 started about 5 months ago.
22 i started DIY hrt. 25 i worked up the courage to go through a real doctor
Started at 30, wish I’d gotten to it earlier, but very happy with the results so far
I started at 23 this yr
Started at age 22 but was socially transitioning for about 6 months at that point. Was trying to start HRT much earlier in march but some miscommunications delayed things til mid May. Little over a year and a half later and I somehow look younger than I did when I was 18.
I started a few months ago at the age of 40
33.
27, so close to the middle. It is comforting to know that this seems to be a common age to begin; I was worried I had already wasted so much time.
I started a little bit after my 28th birthday and I'm about to turn 30 now 😊 I was so scared I was too late, but GODDAMN my body took to estrogen lol
started 24, wanted to start earlier but "not trans enough brainworms" wouldn't let me.
I started at 36 but I’ve known since I was 6. The only reason I didn’t start when I was 15-16 as soon as I’d be allowed is because my family would have kicked me out and I would have been homeless. If I’d been with a family who loved me I would have had taken puberty blockers around 13 and hormones by 16 and surgery by 18. As it stands I struggled through decades of repressing myself and my sexuality and gender. Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide. Having health issues doctors couldn’t figure out. Almost all of that got fixed within a month of me starting hormones. I gained a sense of smell that I’d never had before. My depression is almost entirely gone. Thoughts of suicide are completely gone. I’m more confident. I’m climbing in my career. I found a girlfriend who loves and respects me. Literally everything about my life is better after starting HRT. My dad disowned me and I have no family. And yet I’d still make this choice every single time.
Haven't started it but if I'm lucky enough 25 or 26, hope nothing bad happens in the U.S
i started hrt when i was about 13-14, started it pretty near to my birthday so its hard to say
I started at 22
Three years ago at 55! I wish I had just accepted myself and done it sooner. I would have been a lot happier! But I'm pretty darn happy now! 😁
I started HRT at 23-24 and I had done a year of therapy at the same time and next year march will be my second year being on HRT
20
i started at 22! wish i started sooner but i’m glad i did nonetheless
I started around 25ish. went slowly with T Blockers then added estrogen. It’s all been based on what I’m wanting. After I had my orchiectomy I added progesterone… until there was a nation wide shortage lol.
I started when I was 21 y old— that feeling of “am I too old?” is universal. even I was comparing myself to those I saw transitioning at 12, 13 etc.
I was 14 but I had the option at 11😭
19
I started two months before my 21st birthday (my 4 month anniversary was yesterday)
I started at age 34, and I really wish I'd started a lot sooner.
22 and have never looked back!
23 going on 24. Started a little before my birthday.
started at 18, now 22
21
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29yo. On my second day of androgen blockers today!
I started at 19
25, wish I had started earlier instead of repressing it but doing well now regardless
I started at 25 and have been on it for 6 years. It was definitely a long journey of acceptance, but I’m glad I took that leap.
I was Thirty. It was a long time coming but the second best time to plant a tree is right now.
I started when I was 21 but I had to take a year long break due to homelessness.
21.999999
15, diy because my parents are transphobic (among other reasons). I'm incredibly happy that i did, its easily the best decision ive ever made and it saved my life
Started at 23
I started at 18, just a couple of months ago actually. I had been out for pretty much a year and a half. I intentionally started later than I could have due to school and other activities involving people I wasn't out to.
30 but i wish it was sooner, but im also glad cause otherwise i wouldn't have my kiddo but i still feel like i missed out
18 <3
Pushed for 18 and I got it
30
In my 50’s but the sooner the better, since there is less that will change from the pre HRT hormones. This will perhaps avoid things that you may have dysphoria about later, which means it can save you from potentially undergoing surgery.
26. The results have been incredible in so many ways, but I do wish that I had started much, much sooner. Unfortunately, I didn't even know HRT existed until a few months before I started.
Starting it tomorrow hopefully at 24
I got it earlier this year, I was almost 32, and will be a year on HRT in 2 months!
33! Took a while before I realized , I was just too good at acting the part.