Not transgender myself, but the process sounds both interesting and scary. Are there any specific reasons for hormone therapy? Sometimes I wonder if messing with the body's hormonal balance like that does more harm than good in the long term.

I hope I don't come off as condescending, since this is an area I don't know much about, but I do have a question.

Is it typical for transgender people to actually go through hormone therapy/sex reassignment surgery as an adolescent? It completely makes sense to me that you would start to discover your identity at that point in your life, but, if I remember correctly, you've previously stated that you're 16, at the oldest. It would be trite to say that age is just a number, and in a scenario like this, maturity and ability to make decisions would surely fluctuate wildly, so please don't think I'm coming at it from that angle. It does, however, pose an interesting question in my mind, which I hope doesn't derail the topic too much.

I remember reading some time back that men and women have an equally tough time finding doctors who are willing to perform procedures which will end their ability to have children below a certain age. In other words, I've read that it's extremely uncommon for a medical provider to do a vasectomy or tubal ligation if the recipient is under 25. If so, why? I've known, personally, that having children is absolutely out of the question for me for as long as I could think about such things. Birth control methods have certainly progressed in efficiency, and I can, and do, use and trust my chosen method. However, while I'm over the threshhold now for this supposed age restriction, the more I hear about gender reassignment, the more I ponder why one body modification is seen as more ok than another. Because, at the end of the day, this is our bodies, our choice, as long as we know this is what we truly want, and said procedures are physically and emotionally safe.

Yepp, let's make kids go through life-altering  surgeries and medical procedures freely, what could possibly go wrong?
Look, what you do with your body as an adult, your business, I don't give a fuck about; reassign yourself and attach an elephant penis if you so desire and you have the means to do so. But we restrict kids to drive, to drink, to own weapons, to vote, basically everything that can have severe consequences if handled improperly. Why in the 7 hells we don't do the same for cosmetic surgery is beyond me.
With that being said, @op I wish you the best of luck and hope that nothing befalls you or that you regret any decisions.

from what i know the thing involves going psychiatrist and other docktors
its not like, oh come here and lets start the hormone therapy right away
hormones are the one of the bi  things that efect ourselves so, there will be some sort of talk will happen to you i guess
at least that's what i think, i'M not a trans or anything but, its not easy as it sounds

@7... I would have thought it's obvious Haily isn't as happy as they want to be.
We only live once, and you've gotta make the best of it while you can.

There are something like 10 or 12 different spellings. Go look it up. I chose the one that looked best phonetically.
@manamon_player and others, you'd be surprised at how much my voice has changed. I'd assume you're talking about my live streams / any audio recordings? It's similar but it's very, very different now.
Yes, there will indeed be many tests involved. You can't just go ask for hormones or gender conformation surgery, that isn't, has never been and will never be how this thing works.
As for why I want what I want, first of all that's never been how this works, it's a lot more complicated than that. I need this transition for my own mental health. Picture trying to live in a body of the opasit sex and having to use a different name if applicable, different pronouns, etc. Probably wouldn't feel right? Over the course of my 16 or so years I've learned a lot about myself, and I know enough to know that it's more than a want, it's a need. Physically, I'm male, but mentally, I've always been feminine. Again, I honestly couldn't expect any of you to understand because thankfully it's not something that the average person ever has to go through, but there it is all the same. Go check out this blog for some prospective.
http://amena.space

Yepp, we all know teenagers are set in stone and that their identity is never going to change.
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Seriously, for your sake Haily, I hope this is a decision you do not end up regretting.

I'm not transgender. I do find it nice how much I've been unintentionally misgendered, and how those online gender quizzes at some point started consistently saying I'm perfectly androgynous. And if I found myself back at the character creation screen with an enby option, I think I'd prefer to take that one.
But none of that counts. I understand transgender as being one or both of two things: physical dysphoria, or a strong feeling of identity that clashes with the body / socially-assigned identity. While I strongly dislike secondary sex characteristics, and find gender stereotypes and gender roles to be bullcrap worthy of subversion, ... Hold on, I need to figure out what's wrong with my definition because I think I just broke it.
... Ahem. Yeah, so none of that is gender-related for me. If you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick a gender politics label, I guess I'd have to go with gender abolitionist, but the hole point is that labels are messed up. It isn't that there is a box labeled "male stuff", and a box labeled "female stuff", and a box labeled "enby stuff", and you have to pick one. It's that cut the damn box, Matel's marketing department ain't the boss of me. I can reverse engineer my sister's Barbie Radio to learn about how binary works, then go play Duke Nukum II until Sailor Moon comes on, and none of that tells me to pick a box.
Na, my physical / identity dysphoria is something else. But trolls used it as reduccio ad absurdum to attack transgender people, and now trans activists act like I can't exist because that somehow gives the trolls power. So, yeah, those trolls can go ... ... I cannot think of a suitable replacement for "go to Hell" / "go fuck themselves" that is less vulgar / can be taken literally without being beyond reason. (Official declaration: unless very explicitly noted, including passage of time to account for altered mental states, all references to Hell should be considered hyperbolic, figurative, or otherwise short for "EXTREME DISPLEASURE!". If Hell is literally torture, "go to Hell" is quite possibly the worst thing to say literally. And in my experience, people always take things literally in the least convenient situations. People, Faustian demons who pop up whenever you think the word "anything" ... -_-)

And that's why I'm not telling anyone to "go to Hell". ... What were we talking about? ... Is this why I never finish anything?

So, uh, selling your soul for Adderall aside ... I'm not transgender. Have weak to no gender identity, do not like contexts that make it important (still eying you suspiciously over that forced gender in profile thing from like 2007, Proboards). Stereotypes are bullcrap. And I won't tell you what my actual issues are but I haven't done much to hide it from sufficiently-determined investigators. And demons who take everything you say literally, rather than as the things said were intended, are jerks.

Disclaimer: OK, I know that stereotypes exist because of reasons, not wholely arbitrarily. They're still bullcrap.

I'm not trans myself, but have been learning a lot, having a few trans friends myself and may possibly end up in a relationship with an FTM friend of mine. Everyone is different, but one thing of course remains the same. It's becoming your true self above anything else. It's really sad and disheartening to see how much discrimination exists in the trans community.

@1 Just wanted to take a moment to thank you for graciously answering everyone's questions. I myself am not trans, but your initial message asked if anyone else here was and I don't know that you've gotten what you may have hoped for by asking it. I hope that you have, or find, the support you need.

I have a bit of a kneejerk reaction to piling easily googleable questions about someone's lifestyle or identity onto them. Maybe I'm a weird blind person, but I hate answering easily googleable blindness questions unless they're asked by a close friend, and will often give someone the 15-second answer with an invitation to do their own research. Even close friends will get a longer answer with the caveat that I'm answering for myself only, and that they should really do their own research if they're interested in something better. Haily's choices are their own, but I generally operate under the principle that it isn't a woman's job to teach me about feminism, a person in a wheelchair's job to teach me about access issues, a blind person's job to teach me about blindness issues, a person of <insert ethnicity here>'s job to teach me about issues related to their culture, etc. It's on me to do that research, and possibly to ask specific questions as to how that research relates to them personally.

Anyhow, it's a beautiful Saturday and I'm not debating this further. I just haven't seen much thanks in exchange for asking some pretty deep questions, so thought I'd take a moment to appreciate the answers that were given, and to explain my perspective on why giving them may actually be exhausting for the giver.

Ya'll gotta remember there's a ton of propaganda against trans people right now. You can always ask me if you're ever curious. Never ever ever go to quillette or other right wing sources for trans people cuz they literally want us obliterated lol

Think of it this way: when we don't know what options we have, we think that they are static, firm in our world. But when we gain more knowledge, the "Staticness" of those ideas grows more flimsy, and we can start to challenge the ideas that this so called "static" idea is formed on. Then, you topple it over and find there was nothing there.

This is what is happening to gender right now. We're slowly realizing the material reality of our bodies being unique as opposed to being "male" or "Female" - these are just properties that this unique individual can take, and are limited just like the static ideas I brought up above. If we have enough information to realize then we can break down those ideas and do whatever we want with our bodies. Why should we be happy with who we are born as? Shouldn't we have the right to do what we please with our bodies and our lives? This is a problem that addresses both trans people and blind people.