Hello friends, I have seen a lot on the web about "late onset transsexuals" who have apparently been studied at least as regards surgery outcomes. But for those of us who are late onset CD's -- I started when I was 54 -- much less research seems to exist. If you started late, did something happen that caused you to start? Job or life stress? A hormonal shift? A medical procedure of some kind? Therapy that unlocked life long repression?
I'm really baffled as to why this started, and as to whether I could possibly have repressed it from myself for so long. I don't recall much if any temptation toward girlyness my entire life no early dressing with cousins, or anything like that, though I am son of a DES-taking mother.
For myself, it was probably a job-loss issue that was the stress that induced my dressing, but that doesn't really answer why I do it, or didn't know about it for so long.
Any thoughts?