When did you realise you were trans*?

about a few months ago and all 8th grade and some of 9th grade i was questioning gender then i found out that i was genderfluid

 

There's two kinds of trans people: the early onset trans people and the late onset trans people. None of them is more trans than the other.

Personally I did find something was wrong with me since my teens and looking back I knew it was there when I was just a child too, but I was too dumb to realize something was wrong. I only realized what was wrong a year ago.

 

Hard to tell, due to cultural factor. I mean, I felt really nice when people commented that I am girly and looks like a girl when I was young, but I don't even know what transgender means back then. I just like what they say say, but I never thought about whether I could be a girl in a boy body at all.

It wasn't until I move to another country around 15 and get exposed to new thoughts and ideas that I can find a word to call myself, and it was such a powerful thing. To find my own identity, and to find a community of those who are like me. And that point would be when I "realized" that I am transgender.

Although even that process wasn't like a neat and simple "click" like a switch was on in my mind, like some other people's experience. For me it was much more confusing. There were times I thought I was an "otherkin" with another soul in me. Some other times I thought I actually have dual personalities. It was a lot of identity mazes to navigate and a lot of frustration and confusion to deal with. And it took me years until I find and accept myself as a transgender person.

 

I always knew something was up, but I was innocent and naive, or I tried to ignore it as best I could. Didn't officially accept myself until early 20's.

 

No, there's nothing wrong with it. Some people on this very forum realized as late as their fifties and it's actually very common.

 

I knew I was supposed to be a boy when I was about four or five. I remember having tantrums about binary gendered assignments and being forced into a box that wasn't my own. It was solidified more when I was maybe eight or nine when I got a brutal taste of what separated guys and girls, and heard SRS/GRS existed not too long later. It became something I had to do when I was 16 later on.

A lot of people don't know until they're older in life, which is something people forget.

 

To copy and paste from elsewhere:

In a nutshell, I had inklings all my life, but thought this was common. Did a little investigating in my early-to-mid-20s, and found my answer.

 

Well i don't think i really realized i was trans very early but i felt weird for a long time and didn't know why since i didn't know that you can be neither male nor female without being born intersex.
As a child i felt like the gender roles in general were weird.people i played with for years suddenly treated me with disgust simply because i cut my hair short.or when i wore my brothers old clothes.many people asked me if i was a boy or a girl and somehow it felt weird answering.
I questioned wether i was a boy or a girl since i was nine because for me there wasn't a real division (there still isn't but people were starting to get weirder about it) but i always jumped between the two in a minute or so.
When i was twelve i heard about intersex for the first time and somehow wanted to have been born as such.i had the feeling that if my mother would come and tell me i was genetically intersex or something things would start to make sense somehow.
When i was four teen dysphoria started to hit.i never felt like breasts belonged to me but i thought maybe it would go away if i got used to them.i was fourteen and i still hadn't.
I went into a lgbt group far away and introduced myself with a male name as a trans guy.still it didn't feel right.when i got home after that i kinda understood for the first time that i wanted to be both and in a way neither male or female that i wanted to be in between.i felt like a lonely freak like i was the only person on this goddamn planet that felt that way.
I felt guilty for being who i am and try to ignore it but i couldn't stop binding and hating the way people saw me or when they used my name.
Then 3/4 year ago i stumbled randomly on non binary genders in the internet.first i felt unbelievable happy that someone else felt like me.then i tried to deny it a few weeks because i knew it would bring immense trouble.but my mind couldn't keep away.an here i am typing non sense:icon_wink i don't know where along the way i really realized i was trans but i know i belong somewhere and that feels unbelievable awesome.

 

I grew up in a culture in which the genders are very segregated, so I only realized that I related much more to guys and imagined myself as a guy about a year ago. I didn't realize that I might be trans till about a month ago.

 

I've always felt different my whole life, and there were lots of signs that I was trans as a kid, but I didn't figure it out until I was 14.

 

You're not a crocodile?

I have been deceived!

<3

 

i always thought it was a frog.....it's really a crocodile 0.0

 

Ah, I hate this question. It's too complicated to answer.

 

I'm actually a crocodile born in the body of a human :lol:

 

Why?

 

I realized I was trans about 2 years ago, so when I was 16. There were some signs as a child, but I don't know if I would have IDed as trans if I had been given the option when I was younger. All I know is I'm trans now.