Yeah I finally started the physical part in my mid-40s, now almost 50 and finally getting a few surgeries the next few years. But I’m in a huge rush since the system’s gate keeping and provider shortages takes so long to get through.
By 60s, you’ve basically past the point where you could get through wait lists and still be able to heal well from surgeries, so it really limits what you can do. And with all of the safety issues if you’re not able to get FFS, vocal feminization, and other appearance altering procedures so you can pass, you’re likely to just get beaten and raped, thrown in jail with people of the opposite gender to get beaten and raped, or just outright murdered. So I get their perspective. But they shouldn’t keep younger people from it just because they didn’t have the opportunity.
In this case the older person is my mom and she has done well passing as a guy lost her life without any surgeries or hormones and acknowledging that she’s not cis.
Yeah I finally started the physical part in my mid-40s, now almost 50 and finally getting a few surgeries the next few years. But I’m in a huge rush since the system’s gate keeping and provider shortages takes so long to get through.
By 60s, you’ve basically past the point where you could get through wait lists and still be able to heal well from surgeries, so it really limits what you can do. And with all of the safety issues if you’re not able to get FFS, vocal feminization, and other appearance altering procedures so you can pass, you’re likely to just get beaten and raped, thrown in jail with people of the opposite gender to get beaten and raped, or just outright murdered. So I get their perspective. But they shouldn’t keep younger people from it just because they didn’t have the opportunity.
In this case the older person is my mom and she has done well passing as a guy lost her life without any surgeries or hormones and acknowledging that she’s not cis.