10 years later, i can tell you 30 is plenty early even if i do wish i could have just skipped first puberty. still worth it. sooner is better but never is fatal.
it's phenomenal how much better my life got once I started. unreal. everything that came before transition might as well be a footnote
i started hrt at 28 and thought it was too late. i'm 35 now and i feel so lucky for starting when i did. it's never too late, y'all
I started transitioning at 37. The ten years I had been sort-of-out but not transitioning, were partly because I felt it was too late for me. Or that I wasn't good enough to be trans by some random metric.
That was a mistake. I have had absolutely 0 regrets about starting and continuing HRT. I'm even kind of shocked that I've only missed a single dose in nearly two years. I look better, I feel better, it has added years of energy to my life. You're only robbing yourself
time spent being your authentic self, and until you live that, you don't know how much of a crime that is.
Started HRT at 35, do not regret it for a single solitary second. I don't know how else to put it but it made my brain start to work like normal. I spent so much of my life feeling like I was in an non-existant blur and then boom I felt like I was a person. Like I was able to go from "medically diagnosed with no-identity syndrome" to "feels like they exist", it made me get well enough to be able to actively get a hold on my other mental health problems too. Mirrors are no longer an existential crisis! I meltdown 100000000000000% less! I feel alive!
If you wanna get on HRT and are older, and you're on the fence - I highly recommend doing it! I signed myself up for HRT the second I was able to, and it was one of the best decisions I've made in my life. Planned Parenthood does informed consent in texas and other places, and my experience with them was good!
I came out at 29, changed names and pronouns at 30, started hrt at 34, and had top surgery at 35. I spent the whole time worrying that I was too old, that I'd wasted my youth and only opportunity to be a "real trans" and here on the other side, lemme tell you I was WRONG. Every single one of those steps made my life demonstrably better and more liveable, and starting T especially totally changed my outlook on life and ability to do things and be happy and just .... Live. I went off the T for around 6 months bc of insurance messiness, and that super sucked, but it confirmed for me how much good it was actually doing me, mentally, aside from all the expected physical changes. HRT is life-saving medicine, and if you think transitioning might be for you... It's not too late, it's never too late!!!! I'm so excited for my 40s, in a way I truly never thought I'd be excited about anything, ever.
