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Is there an age limit for transitioning?
Transitioning is possible no matter a person’s age. While there are certain considerations that a doctor may take into account before recommending certain transitioning procedures, there is currently no age limit on when a person can socially and medically transition.
How long does hair take to transition?
1. Be patient. Whether you decide to do a big chop or gradually grow out a relaxer, it’s going to take at least three to four months to start to see real change. For some, it may be a full year before you’re completely chemical-free.
How often should you wash transitioning hair?
Co-washing should be your primary option on cleansing transitioning hair, but every so often – whether every week, every two weeks or every month – it will be necessary to shampoo.
What is it like being trans in older age?
Transitioning in older age is far from easy; from the baggage that comes with a life already half-lived, to navigating existing relationships. Sadly, I see too many relationships fail when a long-term partner comes out as trans.
Can I transition to a feminine gender later in life?
A person can transition and present as more feminine at any point in their life. A person who is transitioning later in life has access to the same medical and nonmedical gender affirming procedures as people who begin transitioning earlier.
Is there a positive side to transitioning in older age?
Of course, those with a long-term partner don’t have to go down the dating route that younger people have to, so perhaps that’s one positive to transitioning in older age. I shudder at the thought of some of my older friends who now find themselves back in the dating game and dealing with transition at the same time – double whammy.
But age-related health conditions can also delay the process. On the eve of 62-year-old Dawn’s final surgery to transition to female last year, a heart condition was discovered and her operation was pushed back. “The moment I was sent home before the operation was one of the worst days of my life,” she says.