Everything on this site about transitioning later in life: 17 pieces in all.
Gender dysphoria in later life is real, valid, and more common than most people realise. It can surface or intensify at midlife for the first time,…
Transitioning at 62 is absolutely possible, and people do it successfully all the time. I've been told about someone transitioning in Australia in…
When HRT delivery methods fail after gender-affirming transition, the approach is the same as for any menopausal person: try a different route, a…
He grew up in 1970s Britain reading C.S. Lewis by torchlight and longing to be one of the brothers, not the girl they all thought he was, and it…
Rosa spent her eighties being called the wrong name by carers who did not know her story, until her daughter taped a photo and a note to the door so…
Otto raised three children as their mother before coming out as a trans man in his sixties, and now his grown children are learning what it means to…
Maggie buried it for fifty years and a marriage, and only after her wife died did she let herself, at seventy-one, finally become the woman she had…
Margaret was a grandfather of sixty-three, sitting in a kitchen at two in the morning with the screen brightness turned down, when she finally…
Salma came out to her devout elderly parents in her forties, and discovered that love and faith can travel slowly and still arrive.
Anaya spent her thirties explaining away a feeling she could never quite name, until a colleague's transition gave it one.
Diane had known since the eighties, buried it through addiction and a rebuilt life, and then told her wife the truth over dinner on a Tuesday, and…
Every trans adult was once a trans child. Many people grew up without the language, the visibility, or the acceptance that might have let them say it…
Trans people have always existed. What changes is how hard society makes survival. A 76-year-old trans woman who received gender-affirming surgery on…
A piece of paper is never just a piece of paper. For trans people, a birth certificate is the document that lets you travel, rent a flat, open a bank…
Victoria Cruz, a transgender rights advocate who was present at the 1969 Stonewall uprising, has died aged 79 following a battle with liver cancer.…
Gender transition belongs to the person living it, and there is no single right way to do it. Lynne Young began hers on the cusp of her 70s and says…
Dr Michelle Peterson's decision to transition whilst maintaining her dental practice in the American Bible Belt offers a powerful testament to…