I know me too she’s just so adorable 😊

Him*

She was born female too.

Bryanna means assigned female at birth.

@@thatpersonwholovesallfranc216 No she wasn't.

That sentence is on the list of the most cringy things t say to someone

@@thatpersonwholovesallfranc216 If it's, then this plastic wouldn't need to be plastic in the first place.

You're so fortunate to find out about HRT at your age! A lot of people would kill to go back in time and start at that age!!!

faolan1129 my daughter is 12 and she is a transgender girl and she is amazing and i hope one day you can live your full truth. As a mother i cant imagine my daughter not being able to be her authentic self

faolan1129 I found I was glad I did not transition before puberty. Then again that's just me.

I actually find most people are in flux about who they are until they hit at least 18 normally. That's why I don't agree with starting HRT before then. I'm starting this at 27 and I do wish I had started about 22 or 23 though not before then. There was a lot I needed to figure out in my life that was not tied to my gender and my gender identity in my life. Also if you plan to get bottom surgery it helps to go through puberty so they you can have enough material for the surgery.

LOL you're a male who can't looks like female naturally so of course you gonna need HRT.

Because they are mean and nasty to the core

Judith Revers You are so right about that. I don't understand why a girl doing typically masculine things is okay, but a boy doing something feminine is instantly shamed. I'm a 23 year old guy thinking about transitioning, but I have been ridiculed multiple times already.

Thank you for all of your help/information! I will be sure to research some of the stuff you have mentioned! :)

Transmermaid I'm sure you probably know this but just in case. You need to start working your voice now so that you don't fall into your lower registers. (it just takes practice start today, now.. don;t wait!!!) .Sadly Candifla has disappeared! but her videos are still there , grab them while you can kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8iRnZelrr6Vm6s.html she is so good! Before you start your Hormone blockers consider www.thespermbankofca.org/content/store-sperm. You might think now. I'm interested in men why would I want to do that? Well new breakthroughs on merging DNA are happening so children can come from three parents! (as well as artificial and transplanting wombs). Just give yourself options to have your own child. Women have big feet lots of stores now stock large sizes (especially online). GRS is not the most important thing in the world. (it depends on your partner). Marci Bowers is always a good start if you need to ask questions. Breasts are an interesting thing . take a look at your mother and sister and subtract two cup sizes! Turn you cons into pros and enjoy your life (And you youth) while you can. to fail to plan is plan to fail....

+nunya biznez * Some people at various web-sites post that plucking is not good. Both my experience and word from my electrologist differ. I plucked before and during electrolysis. My electrologist told me that plucking helpt create a higher threshold for pain of electrolysis zaps, meaning that she could hit many more hair follicles at a high setting than if I did no plucking. She told me that she was good with my plucking as long as she had enough hairs to zap. Eventually during my treatment, I came to a balance where I no longer plucked because she zapt everything on my face. That was the good sign that I was on the downhill ride to end this part of transition. I had no grand finale, no fanfare after spending a Saturday or two each month doing electrolysis for a few years. I simply had no need to return for treatment. While it was great having finished, there was that quiet let-down of no finale. *

Or one other thing Mia, perhaps you might just be yourself and let the world just eat it!

The fact is that all aspect of his face looks like a natural boy's face. No wonder this plastic choose to be plastic with external manufactured hormones, fitting for a coward.

James Cuthbertson I wish I knew more people like you. I'm thinking of transitioning, but I'm scared out of my mind.

Alex Lubbers hi, Alex...yes, I can only imagine how frightened you are! there has got to be a support network around you that can help you get started in your quest for liberation...what state or province or other do you live by? I'll check into support organizations, someone you can talk to...I'm on PlayStation as irishbaroo...and I'm also bisexual, so I have some level of understanding LGBT issues. Stay in contact, OK?

James Cuthbertson I am 23 years old. I have been questioning my sexuality since I was 13 or so. I first learned about transgender kids through a television special. I live in the state of Michigan in the USA.

James Cuthbertson I also sent you a Hangouts message.

Alex Lubbers hi Alex...I'll look into some help for you in Michigan...BTW, I have friends in Gaylord

Hope all your surgery went well and your happy who your are now

Are you Maya’s mum? 💕💕

Thank you so much! I love Drew Barrymore movies. ;P

Omg ur right! I knew she looked like someone but now I know!

+Maya But your better looking then Drew.

+ChrissyJane My picture made it to all the news medias. As for swimsuits. Yes, I was very brave. I was doing bikinis regularly at the public beaches 2 years before hormone treatments. Girlishly thin, long hair and sunglasses. I had to prove to myself is this what I want, that I could live comfortably as a woman for the rest of my remaining life. When I was facing felony lewd behavior charges for the homecoming, I was scared that a life I wanted so badly might be taken away by society's worst homo phobics. That's when I knew who I was. A very scared girl.

+ChrissyJane Oh my god. Public indecency? Seriously? I'm not trans but being transphobic in my hippie city would be a death wish :D. Coming out at homecoming was a brilliant idea, by the way.

+Jessica Read UK gives little to no support in regards to this, along with a toxic culture.

Mirander Black waiting lists are upto 12 years, one of my friends was told. Appointments were spread out over two years and repeatedly cancelled by Charing cross in London UK. The NHS sucks and should just call it a day. There are no more NHS dentists because they did not pay up when due. It is political, and the EU is involved big time. Thousands of free loaders move here and get everything for free whilst the quality of services to those who live here go down accordingly. The best place to live so far is six feet underground. The UK sucks big time and I no longer vote for this corrupt government system that produces blah blah all the time. To think that my family's blood was shed to protect this country and Europe from countless tyranny makes me sick. xJes

Jessica Read At the end of the day I don't think its worth it at all, for a life expectant of around 30 years. Along with the fact nobody but friends are going to ever truly understand/accept you.

Mirander Black Well, in part I agree with you. However I knew at three I was all wrong and not like my kid sister cos she didn't have a third leg. I am soon to be 61 so I have had a long life of nothingness. My Auntie was 104 when she died. I can't imagine living like I was born on the outside another 43 years. I was also born dead. I agree that being born this way sucks especially without any support from family and friends, doctors, professionals, surgeons, anyone accept the mengays. Doing this alone and on your own, this sex change thing, sucks. Bio-diversity comes in many shapes and sizes and accepting this is the biggest thing ..... being different. xJes

andy kaylor I feel the same way.

+TakeoFR * I admit that my feelings are mixed - whether to tell or not to tell. My perspective is that my medical history is not up for debate. If a partner were to demand of one factor, then what of other medical issues? And then I get to pick and choose whether to accept them because of their medical history. When does the nit-picking end? Fact is, legally, medically, biologically I AM female and have no obligation to tell any more than any other. Now if I had an STD or AIDS, that would be different; they are communicable diseases, transsexualism is NOT transmittable. *

SharonAnne N Assuming you are trans woman, you are not biologically female. You are either biologically male, or intersex. Medically... well you are trans, ie your biological sex will give cues to what disease you are more likely to get (you probably have a single X chromosome and are therefore more at risk to develop a X-linked recessive disease), and you are likely not at risk of ovarian cancer, but you still can have prostate cancer. I agree that for simple sexual intercourse it shouldn't be relevant. But I still think it is better to say it, as it is relevant for some people.

+TakeoFR * Yes, I am both female inter-sexed and M-F transsexed. As I have tried describing here and elsewhere, I was born female with ambiguous anatomy that my birth room doctors erroneously presumed was male. They assigned me 'male' on my Birth Certificate, my family raised me as 'male'. Through subsequent medical examinations, I always had female anatomy, not male anatomy; my anatomy was mal-developed to appear as male just as an inter-sexed male will have male anatomy that appears as female. I had to repeatedly convince my physicians to do something to test me because I had absolutely no male function. I learned of my circumstance through the course of my M-F transition. It was a curious confirmation of my femaleness. That medical determination did not change my resolve to continue transition to female. Instead, I came to describe my transition as female-to-male-to-female. My doctors offered to test my DNA. Back then (1982), they told me that it would cost $10.000 from my pocket. I said no thanks, not at that price. My DNA karyotype was irrelevant then and remains irrelevant today. A normal female can have XY and a normal male can have XX. Will I experience DNA-related diseases? Who knows? Do I have other than XX or XY? Who knows? I had neither testes nor ovo-testes; I had ovaries. That fact is part of my medical record. My surgeons removed my ovaries during a revision procedure. I have a hysterectomy scar that I wear proudly as a badge of my experience. I never had a prostate, therefore can never experience prostate cancer. Many people will say that my appearance in childhood pictures is male. I then appear as female in photographs of me during my teen years (my first puberty feminised me). I developed a second puberty during my early 20s that began masculinising my appearance - mostly limited to facial hair, my voice remained female. My ERT during transition restored my female development. I had two boyfriends (1980s) and one Lesbian girlfriend (1990s). None of those relationships went far enough that I considered telling. I do not know if I would have then; nor if I will in any future relationship. I always have been female, I merely lived an intervening number of years as a male. No gynecologist would know without me saying (since it is in my medical record, they otherwise do know). I have other medical conditions that I would not tell; I share those conditions with some people, others will never know. I shall write that telling is between the partners and their relationship. I suppose as others do, I shall cross that bridge when I get there. To tell or not to tell, that is the question, indeed. Bottom line, these are not choices we made - anatomy made them for us; we devised ways to cope and correct the errors. Thank you for your support. ('SlimandMe.WordPress.com') *

SharonAnne N Thank you for taking the time to answer so extensively. You have an interesting story. The 'Intersex Society of North America' states "People who identify as transgender or transsexual are usually people who are born with typical male or female anatomies but feel as though they’ve been born into the “wrong body.”", so I assume that your story is quite unusual for transgender. The funny part is that I don't have to change anything from my last response: "Assuming you are trans woman, you are not biologically female". I don't think you can be properly called a trans. I wouldn't call an intersex a transsexual: if you identified as a men you would be called "trans-men", as you identify as a women you are called "trans-women"? Sounds as a weird use of the word trans. But I suppose that as you were assigned male at birth by the doctors (did they throw a coin to choose?) you had to use the laws regarding transsexuals to get it corrected later. So you are legally M-F transsexed and biologically female inter-sexed.

+TakeoFR * Yep. Allow me to try presenting more of the scenario to you for your understanding. I grew up told I was a boy. I did not know my inadequate male anatomy was inadequate; it was what I had and that was that. I did not know differently because I had what I had and that was what my parents told me was male - yep, perhaps the birth room doctors did flip that coin. The doctors decided as they did; my parents were likely of the mind to not question the doctors. Exactly as you commented - my childhood female gender identity told me that I had the wrong body. I did not quite know really how wrong it was until many years later. If the doctor in 1982 came to the determination that I was 'male', then my course would have been solely as a M-F transsexual. In this sense, I was first a transsexual long before I was inter-sex. Both courses are true for my life. I was at Summer camp at age nine when I first came to the awareness of my difference when all the boys stript naked to take a shower at the end of the week. They all stared at me and laughed; need I say that was a devastatingly humiliating experience. Nor was 9th Grade Gym class any better when we were directed to shower at the end of the class each day; I figured a way to always be the last one so that I was not noticed as much. Yes, my self-identified gender has always been female regardless of my irregular anatomy as a child and teen. I began my course with the knowledge of that time that I was a 'male' at age 18 transitioning to female. My original transition doctors merely accepted my Birth Certificate documentation as 'male', therefore, in that sense, I began as a male-to-female transsexual (M-F) according to the provisions and protocols of that time. That was all that my doctors and I knew as of that time. It took years trying to convince my physicians to explain why I had irregular anatomy; I began my own research instead. I came to be known among the users at the University of Utah Medical Center library and eventually had an appointment for an exam to answer - or at least review - my questions about my anatomy (1982). They first used a fluoroscope, were not satisfied, and then went for a direct look inside (I have my hysterectomy scar as my badge of honour). I have no internal male anatomy - e.g., no prostate. My external anatomy deemed that I could not have experienced a male function. My mind-set was not favourable following those results. Yes, I re-evaluated my perspective. I wanted to proceed from that determination and continue my transition more so now that I could say that I am female physically as well as mentally. You must understand that there was no such thing as Internet 30-some years ago - information was slow via the published book and journal. There were barely 1000 cases of transsexuals in the USA at the end of the 1970s. I was my physicians' only transsexual patient through all those years (1974 - 1985). My counsellor told me in 1983 that I was the only one in the state of Utah. One counsellor last year told me that he recalled hearing about only one transsexual at Utah during that same time (1983 - 1985) - either that was me or he uncovered a second person unknown to me and my Utah counsellor. If you out there are the 'other' transsexual, then we gotta meet and form our own club. As far as whether or not my past and path is 'quite unusual' (both transsexual and inter-sex), I do know at least a handfull or other inter-sexed members of the transsexual support groups that I began attending since last year. We may be a minority of a minority's minority, but we are here, though far less visible. I read at one inter-sex association web-site that many choose to not change their sex presentation - that they remain in their assigned sex though it may be their incorrect sex. I guess that I am in that minority, too. I have considered making enquiries and joining an inter-sex support group where I reside; I have not bothered as yet. I am active enough with the transsexual support groups. Yes, I sense a belonging to both groups - one foot in the inter-sex path and one foot in the transsexual path. Thank you, TakeoFR and others, for bearing along with this conversation. *

I am a woman and I dont care if men call me dude or bro. I think it only bothers people that are not born female.

+Mirander Black * Sorry to disagree with you, Mirander. Not everyone has a right or reason to know. This is a medical circumstance as any other medical condition and not everyone must be told of one's complete medical history. When you get to prospects and partners, that can be another decision. If you have already been socialising among people open to transsexual, then the tell should not be complicated and your prospect is unlikely to reject you. Okay, those may be their own hurdles. My perspective is that I waste little earnest time with people I know would not accept me if I told them, whether or not they are or are not on my prospective partner list. I find it best to begin with a social pool of people who already are open and accepting rather than starting with people who are questionable at best or outright hostile at worst. Maya's partnership statement says it best. *