Hey, if you are #trans and began transitioning in the 2016 - 2019 era, can you reply and let me know!

[tess@chaosfem.tw]

@JoscelynTransient

[purplekairi1312@softnoise.space]

@JoscelynTransient heyaa o/

[sophie@glammr.us]

@JoscelynTransient howdy

[joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw]

@FinalGirl final egg crack, social transition, and/or medical transition. Basically, began the journey to being oneself today

[lily@homestead.social]

@JoscelynTransient Started HRT December 30, 2019 so made it in by the skin of my teeth

[nicolaelle@chaosfem.tw]

@JoscelynTransient In the group, for the most part; started transitioning in earnest in late May of 2019, and started HRT that November. That said, I never did trans twitter, because I never did twitter.

[theartlav@anarres.family]

@JoscelynTransient *waves hand*

[violet@corteximplant.com]

@JoscelynTransient let's see, I want to say late 2019 or 2020? So I may or may not be in your group

[keab42@kind.social]

@JoscelynTransient I started my social transition in 2017, May 1st will mark my 3rd HRT anniversary. (UK waiting lists are a heck of a thing)

[joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw]

@Keab42 ouch, yeah, that’s a ridiculous wait! That’s do crimes level if wait.

[crow@irlqt.net]

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw Hello, I came out and started hrt in april 2016

[drjlecter@beige.party]

@JoscelynTransient ‍ realisation was 2009 thanks to twitter actually, but came out and started transitioning in 2016

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw the "before times" you yearn for are being a child. you didn't know how bad the real world was because you were a child. that's how being a child works.

[joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw]

@eri no, i am talking about when i was in my 30s and a grown ass adult who had already begun her transition. And it’s not actually yearning or nostalgia, more wanting to connect with people that went through similar experiences and have some shared reference points that those transitioning after the pandemic began largely don’t share.

It’s like how it’s nice to spend time with people your own age as you get older. That’s all.

Why the assumption that I was a child? And I think it’s also not a bad thing to have some fondness for a time before my community’s existence was once more being made illegal and facing active attempts to genocide. Just saying.

[flausomat@wandering.shop]

@JoscelynTransient hi there! i had my realization around 2014 and trans twitter helped me a lot! it brought information, friends and even i'm still friends with people i met there. then the cartoon villain came...

[miranda_blue@eldritch.cafe]

@JoscelynTransient It was a long process for me but I started questioning myself in late 2017. (There is a full account, covering 2017-2023, of it here : https://roboctopus.org/post/2023/08/02/my-transition-journey/ )

(I've never been significantly active on Twitter, trans or not, though. Never figured that site out.)

[woozle@toot.cat]

@JoscelynTransient Egg cracked in 2000 (January 2, I think); had a few phone sessions with a therapist over an hour away (the closest available at the time) who didn't seem to take me seriously or else was hella into gatekeeping -- and then in 2001 lost my contract job (for unrelated reasons) and had to stop therapy because $$.

Was finally able to resume in 2016, which is also when I finally got started on HRT, so I guess that puts me inside the window?

I was never connected with trans community IRL, and online only on Mastodon. (I used to say that every other person I ran into there was a trans girl, and half of them were running their own instances.... fedi was smol, then.)