Age is a popular topic around here and I’m occasionally asked…
“Am I too old to crossdress?” or “Am I too old to transition as a transgender woman?”
My response?
NO, of course not!
Whether you are a so-called mature crossdresser – or an older MTF woman beginning her transition – it is NEVER too late to be your true female self.
I believe that the true desires or your heart are meant to be expressed – no matter how long they’ve been buried.
Is it true that your age may have an impact on hormone therapy or surgery? Yes, that’s possible. But a good doctor will guide you on your best and safest options.
The fact remains that you can transition and/or present yourself as a woman at any point in life.
In fact, embracing your feminine side can give you a whole new lease on life…
I see it all the time: People seem to grow years younger when they make the decision to be themselves fully.
Having the courage to express your true self also inspires others to do the same. The world needs more of this!
In the words of Laverne Cox:
“It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.”
I’ll say it again: You are NEVER too old to be your true female self.
So, I encourage you to take that next step and do whatever it is that you’ve been holding back on.
You deserve it. And it’s not too late!
Do you agree that age is just a number?
Now I’d love to hear from YOU on this topic…
How old were you when you decided to fully embrace your female self? (Or are you still waiting?)
Let’s continue the conversation in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
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I’ve known and been dressing since the age of 5 and I am now 59. The older I get the more I realize the importance of being yourself. Expressing myself as a woman is such an important part of my life. Life can really be fun if your comfortable in your skin. Good luck girls!
I am a crossdresser I am 67 I love to wear bras and Painty 24 _7 e very day I LOVE to be a women I have 34B breast you never to old to
I am 54 years of age and now dress full time in the home. It is wonderfull, feels so right and natural. I will soon commence homone treatment so I can eventually become a woman.
67 years old embracing my true self, with no small relief after so long.
In the first few months of the last four years, there have been times when a slight thought came to me that I had left it too late, but since I began to fully acknowledge my femininity to myself my whole outlook on life has changed. A most important factor has been that I have had help and encouragement of my wife. If anything it has made our bond stronger and more complete.
I feel within myself that I am still on a journey; it’s not over and I am not sure that it ever will be.
Sure, I could wish that I had possessed the strength of character and confidence to take the first steps fifty years ago, when I first consciously had an idea about myself. But the years since then were not wasted. I am now better able to do what I know to be right for me. The first moment I admitted my own feelings to myself was the most important step.
In some ways I feel my limits are affected by the years I spent with maleness my only life, and not only from a point of view of hormones and their effect upon me. As much as I would love to have my physical body match my true self, it is not as likely as it would have been when i was in my teens.
But it’s my experience that things were more difficult in the past than they are today. The most beautiful thing is that I know myself more fully and better than ever before.
Tengo 55 y nadie sabe de mi condición me siento muy solo con mis deseos de travestirme casi no lo puedo hacer,no podría decirlo a nadie de mi familia ,los prejuicios son muy fuertes y arraigados somos una sociedad machista y no puedo ir en contra de eso nunca me atrevería ,solo si viviera solo y en donde nadie me conociera así tal vez.
Lucille,
I am 67. I went out this week-end and had a wonderful time.
All the best
Barbara J
Hi You look great girl and definitely proof we are never to old! XOXO
Wow, you have got it going on girl. Knock em dead.
Lucille,
I am 67. I went out this week-end and had a wonderful time.
All the best
Barbara J
good for you hun. I am 63 and just told the wife and she has been wonderfull. we enen went shopping together this week and she bought me me new panties , night dresses , and other bits and bobs .
p.s. you look fantastic. xxxx
I’m Kendra, a cross-dresser. Two weeks ago I celebrated my birthday and received my Medicare card. Next month I’m having surgery on each eye to remove cataracts. Hopefully the replacement lenses inserted during surgery will leave me with perfect vision. (That’s been the result for the sisters I talked with who had the surgery, but the doctor will not guarantee….) Next, I think I’ll be working on my feminine voice.
I began cross-dressing at 21 when I was a senior in college, but there was curiosity before that. As a child I preferred playing with girls. I was fascinated with makeup. Why did only girls/women color their nails (yep, I’m a nail gal) and lips and eyelids? I just had to try it out…. A few years later happenstance led to the acquisition of a wig with long blonde tresses.
I dressed in private with varying frequency for the next 17 years. Then I met my wife and the purge ensued. For the next 20+ years I occasionally thought about cross-dressing but the desire wasn’t great. Then I passed 60 and the urges returned. A year and a half ago a slip on the ice resulted in a broken kneecap which landed me in the spare bedroom (getting in and out of the waterbed wasn’t practical) where my wife stores much of her clothing. Waking up each morning to the sight of dresses made me wonder….
I concluded I needed to come-out to my wife which I did a year ago. She is very supportive. Within a day of my coming out she was giving me things and she often buys me things. She went with me to purchase my breast forms and wig. I joined a cross-dresser support group. Kendra made her first public appearance last fall when several of the sisters (from the support group) went to a play (about cross-dressers). Since then I have made a number of public appearances including several as sisters with my wife.
Two months ago I received the ultimate complement – a woman referred to me as a woman. My wife and I went to a benefit fashion show put on by the makeup artist I’m working with. We were seated across the runway from his mother. When I saw my makeup artist a week later he said he told his mother that she was seated across from one of his clients. Her reported response: “Oh, those two old women.” (He explained to her.) Even better was the fact I had done all the makeup myself since he was busy with the show that day.
One current member of the cross-dresser support group I belong to is 86. She was among the founders when the group was founded in 1999. A couple of the other founders still come around once in a while. Many of the current group members are in their 60s. Gals, you are never too old….