GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

The oldest I know:Me-50 years old

Even at my advanced age of old enough, I am the baby of the group of transwomen that I know offline. They all range in age from 40-70.

I guess that would partly depend on how you calculate "oldest." If one figures in age of transition and uses that to divide the number of years transitioned, that gives a coefficient by which to multiply one's current age.

For me that would be
20 years
-------- X 50 y/o = 33.33 years
30 y/o (1988)
I just love creative math!

Ahh, that'd be the 37 year old who transitioned at 17...making her 20.

Nope, you got it wrong.

Formula:

years transitioned
------------------------- x current age
age of transition

In your case:

20
--- x 37 = 43.5 years.
17

Oh, it wasn't me I was talking about..bless you, I see how you coulda thought that.

The oldest "transwoman" I ever met was Chis Jorgensen, then in her early sixties; she died soon after, of lung and bladder cancer. If memory serves, her mother and sister went the same way, and were slightly younger when they died.

There is no published data on long-term effects of SRS and/or HRT among reassigned persons. The Dutch might have something in the works, being one of the few places with the raw information from which to work. Dr. Biber's office sent out follow-up surveys a year or so after surgery but I was told the return rate was very small; most posties wanted to get on with life. I didn't send mine in.

One of my offline friends remarked she would like to comment in this thread but the relentless genderpolicing, unfriendliness to the long-transitioned and stealthy, and the tendency of many members to warp threads into their own Unique Story (tm) makes her reluctant to do so. It's why I've not had much to say, too; if a person's managed some kind of normal life, there is darned little support for her here, and that's unfortunate.

OTOH, if you'll will get out there in the big world and live as a plain ordinary person, you'll likely live longer -- happier, too. "Special" carries a whole extra load of stress.

That doesn't make any sense! That makes me 82167 years old!

Oh, wait, I forgot the decimal - 82.167 years?

Hey, wait a minute - I am not even that old!

LOL.

The oldest "transwoman" I know must be, if she's still alive, around 89 years old now. She's a RAF veteran from WW2, and lives in this town.

Hmmmmmmmm, the oldest would have to be 57. And she had FFS with Dr. O and looks like she's about 45.