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<blockquote data-quote="qualitymonkey" data-source="post: 191008" data-attributes="member: 34">If I start to get gender dysphoria at 25, does that mean I was transgender from birth?There isn’t currently any way to answer that question with certainty. What is known is that there are two different kinds of gender dysphoria: early-onset and late-onset. Early onset means before puberty, often in early childhood, while late onset means after puberty, typically in one’s early 20s, though it can happen really at any time. There are people out there who weren’t aware of their problem until their 40s.The two variants appear to have slightly different mechanisms - among other things, differences in sexual orientation. People with the early-onset version typically are heterosexual - i.e. they prefer people of the opposite gender to the one with which they identify (so, someone who identifies as female will prefer males, and someone who identifies as male will prefer females). People with the late-onset version are typically homosexual - i.e. they prefer people of the same gender as the one with which they identify (so, someone who identifies as female will prefer females, and someone who identifies as male will prefer males).In the case of the late-onset version, it may be that it was ‘just sitting there waiting to come out’ for all of the person’s life, or… it may not be that way. We don’t really know and it would be very difficult and fraught with potential ethical problems to find out in any scientifically viable manner.The important thing here is that both variants qualify equally as gender dysphoria.I do not understand</blockquote>

[QUOTE="qualitymonkey, post: 191008, member: 34"] If I start to get gender dysphoria at 25, does that mean I was transgender from birth? There isn’t currently any way to answer that question with certainty. What is known is that there are two different kinds of gender dysphoria: early-onset and late-onset. Early onset means before puberty, often in early childhood, while late onset means after puberty, typically in one’s early 20s, though it can happen really at any time. There are people out there who weren’t aware of their problem until their 40s. The two variants appear to have slightly different mechanisms - among other things, differences in sexual orientation. People with the early-onset version typically are heterosexual - i.e. they prefer people of the opposite gender to the one with which they identify (so, someone who identifies as female will prefer males, and someone who identifies as male will prefer females). People with the late-onset version are typically homosexual - i.e. they prefer people of the same gender as the one with which they identify (so, someone who identifies as female will prefer females, and someone who identifies as male will prefer males). In the case of the late-onset version, it may be that it was ‘just sitting there waiting to come out’ for all of the person’s life, or… it may not be that way. We don’t really know and it would be very difficult and fraught with potential ethical problems to find out in any scientifically viable manner. The important thing here is that both variants qualify equally as gender dysphoria. I do not understand [/QUOTE]

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