Emotional Growth

[Miss Tessa]

As Transsexual women, when we first start HRT, we begin puberty all over again....secondary sex female puberty this time.

And since I took my first mone'z 2 years ago that is when my female puberty started. So I am getting a late start at womanhood compared to GG's.
Because of the hormones and what they do to my mind which is female by gender, yet socialized as a male, I am like a 12 or 13 or 14 year old girl in a 24 year old girl's body.

Our emotional growth is late and stunted, and we have lots of catching up to do in comparison to GG's.

Things happen, our feelings get hurt, boys relate to us in ways we never before experienced on a daily basis in person and on the net and we have a plethora of emotions that we often get confused and don't entirely understand.

What I'm saying is If I compare myself to a GG friend of mine in her twenties too, she is a WOMAN, and I am a 24 year old GIRL.

At least we knew to expect transition was going to be a hard road.

[Scotty]

I'm in my early 40's but phsyically most people tell me early to mid 30's at most...since my hair has grown long I get carded from time to time...

That said, I'm probably 22, 24 maybe....I went through what i would call the puberty phase...

[gillian1968]

As Transsexual women, when we first start HRT, we begin puberty all over again....secondary sex female puberty this time.

For me, it's more than just puberty :) I feel like I have to learn everything all over again, including talking and walking. I'm like 3 :) I can't imagine the RLT, feeling like a 3 year old in a 40 year old body!

[Miss Tessa]

Yes but I am talking about Emotional age and growth. A persons feelings and social functioning.

Not the physical body.

Tasha that is exactly what I am getting at. You understood it perfectly. We have to learn to be a female at such an older age.

Which is why TS children ought to transition ASAP and be given hormones and blockers as soon as their natural puberty kicks in.

[AKAMichelle]

I talked with some parents of a 7 year old child who is starting the transition steps. She is now living as a girl here in Denver. She is much happier.

It is a hard choice, but many people don't understand themselves well enough to transition early in life. Here I am at 48 and considering it myself. Looking back I wish I had known then what I know now. I know we all would have.

[Miss Tessa]

Yeah same thing here in Florida. There's a girl who is 7 who is is a MTF transsexual and she is a cute kid and with very accepting, understanding, supportive parents and she'll get her hormones and blockers at puberty.



And I wish I would have transitioned a few years ago.

I don't know about as soon as high school because kids can be so ignorant and cruel, but definitely a few years ago.

However I have always had a feminine shaped body with very little body hair and nice skin so my transition is going fine and I believe I have done it young enough, though not as young as I idealy have liked to have.

[Sara Violet]

Count me in the same boat. I am 29, but I feel like I am much younger. After 2 years of living full time I am having trouble trying to act like an adult when I really don't feel like one.

I was not raised a girl, so I have no clue how I am supposed to really act. I am always second guessing myself.

[Miss Tessa]

That is one reason why I have said before I prefer hanging with my TG girlfriends rather than my homegirls who are GG's.

With my TG gurls our taboos are broken down and we are very comfortable being around eachother and can give eachother that emotional support.
Or just plain do young girl stuff a teenage girls might do like slumber parties and stuff or vogue to electronic music.