@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.)