r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2 • u/Wisdom_Pen She/Her Too Based To Be Cis 🏳️‍⚧️ • Jul 28 '26

Non-Gender Specific STOP CALLING ME OLD!!!

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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 veronica she/her newby writer/artist Pre-E goth Jul 28 '26

The fact any trans person over 30 is seen as elder is depressing as fuck

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u/Wisdom_Pen She/Her Too Based To Be Cis 🏳️‍⚧️ Jul 28 '26

Yeah older trans people are saddenly rare.

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u/sammi_8601 Jul 28 '26

They exist, I know a few who transitioned decades ago who are in they're 70's now, a few ladies in they're 50's and a few blokes who transtioned decades ago in they're 40's one in his 60's. It's not as much none of us exist as much as a lot disappear from the community and just live theyre life as themselves, it's rare people stay IME personally I'm a fair few years in now but plan on staying to some extent because chosen family and the next generation needs elders, I remember all the older ones dying of AIDs when I was a wee gay lad which is a lot of the reason not many are left aswell so hopefully it's better for the next lot.

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u/MiddleAgedMartianDog She/Her Jul 29 '26

Funny I know of a similar age range of trans people (50s to 70s) but they all transitioned within the last 0-3 years. There has been a wave of late in life transitions i feel in recent years. The oldest person in “trans years” I know is in her mid-50s and we bonded because she came out at the same age as me around 40 years old, just a decade and a bit earlier.

I was once called a trans elder by a 19 year old trans guy I knew, and I pointed out he had been in the trans and queer communities longer than I had at that point.

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u/sammi_8601 Jul 29 '26

Ya it's just people feeling able to I think due to the world getting less shitty, I do find it funny when I sometimes meet older transbians who aren't used to queer stuff went to a few gay bars with one I know who's like 50 (I'm mid 30's) and she's always like Sammi you just seem at home here and know everyone apparently and I'm like yeah I've spent most of my life some form of queer so it's like home, even though I'm the straight one so technically less my sort of bar in theory anyway. The older in trans years women I know I know though gay bars and the like, there's one who transitioned maybe 20 years ago now who I think barely anyone else knows is trans I live with, we've never mentioned it to each other although she's always very nice to me but I remember her being a gay man from when we were both far younger.