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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
It varies but usually WELL before they start transitioning. Remember that identity is just like, what you think of yourself. Everyone's journey is unique but the way it usually goes is:
1: Recognize you're trans (as early as childhood, as late as old age, commonly in teen years)
2a: Come out
2b: Start living as your identified gender
2c: Undergo therapy and hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
3: Have surgical procedures if you want or can
Step 2 can be in any order. Do HRT before coming out, do therapy before coming out, hell some people get HRT before therapy or coming out or whatever. Not all trans people have access to therapy, surgery, and HRT either, nor do all want it.
When you recognize you're trans and start living as your identified gender is uh, all over the place. My wife's sibling is trans and they came out at 38 years old. Meanwhile a good friend of mine has a kid who is clearly not identifying as a boy but he's a little kid so who knows. Let him be a kid and see what things are like come teen years. Everyone is different.
1: Recognize you're trans (as early as childhood, as late as old age, commonly in teen years)
2a: Come out
2b: Start living as your identified gender
2c: Undergo therapy and hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
3: Have surgical procedures if you want or can
Step 2 can be in any order. Do HRT before coming out, do therapy before coming out, hell some people get HRT before therapy or coming out or whatever. Not all trans people have access to therapy, surgery, and HRT either, nor do all want it.
When you recognize you're trans and start living as your identified gender is uh, all over the place. My wife's sibling is trans and they came out at 38 years old. Meanwhile a good friend of mine has a kid who is clearly not identifying as a boy but he's a little kid so who knows. Let him be a kid and see what things are like come teen years. Everyone is different.