As explained further on, the gender transition process can involve a time warp, especially regarding age and our placement within life's chronology. If my experience is any guide, the similarities have big implications as to the nature of gender transition, and how we experience it and help others through it. Similarly, transition involves its own catching up process, into a world that cisgender people of the same nominal age have already had years to integrate their identities with, and adjust to. To loved ones and friends of those undergoing transition who might be reading this... please always remember the time aspects of their process and recognize that their transition is partly a leap-forward adjustment to a chronological age that their new self needs to catch up to emotionally. My biological birth year puts me squarely in middle age, yet even as I dutifully provide the relevant birth date, I feel a sense of disconnect -- of not legitimately feeling part of that age group.

Source: Huffington Post August 08, 2016 15:22 UTC