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Dee in LondonI follow a lot of trans and non-binary people, but most of you are young and I am older... Where are all the older (40+) people who are trans and non-binary?
Boost for reach and say hi if this is you when this reaches you π
Sarah Peper π³οΈββ§οΈπΊπ¦@jay_peper ah hello, another Londoner too π©·
Eve, Go Listen to Dead Channel Sky@dee Not quite, but getting there - check back in a few years
PJ Coffey
wruffian@Homebrewandhacking @dee i wonder if this is an indication that we need to reach out to each others' communities, so that we can have stronger ties with each other, so that we can strengthen our support systems.
Gwen the Trans Balrog@dee
Hello! I'm old and trans!
Hello! I'm old and trans!
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@dee
I'll be 50 in a couple of years.
I'll be 50 in a couple of years.
recursive π³οΈβπ@dee I see you already follow me :)
Dashie 
@dee Finally a toot that my 37 year old bum can feel young again about. 
Lizzie Danger@dee Well, howdy; 41 year old trans woman here. Friends with others, so boosted for you.
Rachel@dee just gotta let it cook a few more years.....
obscurestar@dee ... I transitioned in 1992. π
Rho@dee pushing 50 soon π
Vanquesse@dee 40, working on the "+" trans woman here. π
Willow 
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Nikki has made Quantum Witch@dee I am! So non binary I'm practically analog
Dawn R. Schuldenfrei@QuantumWitch @dee I love that way of putting it! Lol
Jona Enby@dee I'm 39
rowan@dee half a century trans enby here.
cass-Aby-andra@dee - trans agender, and turning 50.
Quirky George π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπ¬π§πͺπΊ@dee hi. I'm an nb and I'm 61..
Silentium@dee Hello! I'm 40 even though I don't feel like it, as most of my friends are younger as well
Jianna@dee hi.. Na ich kann dir sagen das ich viele in unserem Alter kenne. π
Working Class Games
weird herm@dee yo I'm non binary and in my 40s!
Lisa Melton@dee Right here! β I'm one of the olds. Mid sixties. And I just started transitioning this year. π
Jessica Canady@dee 40 next year, egg cracked at some nebulous point in my thirties and I began transitioning 19 months ago. I simultaneously wish I'd started earlier and happy I didn't wait longer.
Jay (they/them) 
@dee *waves* I turned 50 earlier this year. I'm on the agender bit of the nonbinary colourwheel (figured that out in my 40s)
Marie@dee ππ»ππ»
Kass@dee I just turned 40 in October. and am Trans.
Does that count?
Carlo R.@dee
im a transguy who's 37! (transitioned in 2007)!
im a transguy who's 37! (transitioned in 2007)!
TurboQuokka@dee Iβm closing in on 46, started transitioning in my early 30βs.
Melissa BearTrix π³οΈββ§οΈ
Kerri Shotts@dee π Hi there! Another one in the 40+ club, though I shanβt say by how much :-)
Violet Madder40s here and didn't know agender was a thing till about ten years ago when I met one around the age of my parents.
Ampelios@dee At 38 I envy the Youths. At the time I was questioning, NB was not really thing. At 5' nothing, my prospects as a man were grim. So I made peace with being an AFAB woman.
I don't love it and trans women in particular see me as an object of fun. Whatever.
If I were born 20 years later, NB all the way. Nowadays... What would be the point?
Kids think it's funny or make no effort to understand challenges outside their own. Fine.
@dee And I am TOTALLY subposting the trans chick who abjectly refused to consider that hair loss was a thing cis women could also experience and thought "I would trade places with you" made up for "HAW-HAW LOOK AT THIS FUGLY CHICK DARING TO EXIST IN PUBLIC!"
I am so tired of people behaving like animals.
Oh, this stranger is experiencing hair loss, let me make her into content!
Ugh.
JaddyThe point?
Well, my point starting 6 years ago was freedom. To live without constantly checking wether I properly perform any gender role. This includes interests, expression, presentation - and my body.
Getting rid of the parts that I was disgusted by was a big part for me.
But in everyday life it is above all to reject the binary gendered expectations of others: βNo, I am not a \<agab> and not βthe otherβ either. Donβt treat me like oneβ.
All in all I am relieved (the constant role check), more content, happy and relaxed. (Even with the continuous struggle in the binary world)
BTW, I am 58 ;)
@jaddy Sadly they haven't yet come up with a procedure to just ditch the whole body and start over, so disgust is something I'm resigned to live with, too.
Ah yes. Iβd switch to another body (made off my blueprints) any time ;)
Not that it would change the way I'm seen and put into binary boxes, which is the biggest topic for me. But yes, there are some things Iβd still like to change, which are currently impossible on this backward planet ;)
Lizzie Crowdagger 
@dee hi I'm 41 
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β@dee 52 yo trans woman checking in...
Officially Tara π·οΈ 
πΉ@dee I'm in the second half of my 30s, but i know i have some older followers so I've boosted your post 
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Sen the Professional 
@dee Hey ^_^ Turned 41 in September. stg my 40s really snuck up on me
Aria at the keyboard@dee hi! I'm 42 this year! We're out here! There's just a pretty sharp fall-off in how public people are just a bit older than I am.
Tom O'BrienIβm 74. My youngest sibling, now 63, came out to me as NB at the age of about 45. All those years of pretending must have been terrible. Now, they has a happy, uncloseted life, being open. Earlier trans generations were intimidated, but thanks to the way society has changed and thanks to the fight you younger people have waged, a lot of pain no longer weighs down older trans people.
Shertson@wtsparrow @dee I think you've touched on it. Society beat us older folks into boxes and our generation found ways to survive, or more likely, crush those parts of our being that didn't conform. I know a handful of folks that are just now starting to explore and accept themselves in their forties and fifties.
Starr Horne@dee ππ»
JM Longworth, OEF@dee waves in 45!
elora
RamenCatholic π’π@dee 45 and nonbinary here (or, as we said back 'round the turn of the century, GenderQueer)
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