Honest question: How Do Post Op TS's Age?

[Five_Inch_Heels]

You can change most everything by various means except the genetics. So even with whatever hormone treatments and maintenance, if one does it in their 20s, what happens when they get to their 70s or 80s?

 

[Wrong Element]

I feel a Bea Arthur joke coming on.

 

[Noor]

In someways I assume they do better because they will get hormones for life whereas others do not.
They will probably be subject to more hormone related cancers, but maybe not.

Most TS's I know are already middle age when they change, and I don't see any bad effects regarding aging so far.

I am not sure we have enough people yet to really be able to know.

 

[NtlSecAgcy]

Are any citizen grammar Nazis going to tell them about their "T's", or do we have to do everything?

 

[Emerson40]

You can change most everything by various means except the genetics. So even with whatever hormone treatments and maintenance, if one does it in their 20s, what happens when they get to their 70s or 80s?

You may find more info, personal anecdotes, and answers based on experience, over in the GLBT Forum.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You can change most everything by various means except the genetics. So even with whatever hormone treatments and maintenance, if one does it in their 20s, what happens when they get to their 70s or 80s?

That is not a settled question. There may be genetic reengineering in the near future...

 

[NOIRTRASH]

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There is a natural transsexual condition known as ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME where genetic males are immune to testosterone and develop as cosmetic females without ovaries or periods but otherwise interact with the world as bonafide females (they married males legally long before SCOTUS made it lawful). Such people age without male issues. Their gonads are male but undeveloped, they don't bald,nor grow hair in their ears. And its unknown if they like to have their fingers pulled.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Probably makes less impact when that old. Men's testosterone production is way down. Women are infertile and way past menopause. Probably easier to be TS.

 

[Vagina_Dentata]

Heart disease
Stroke
Blood clots
Breast cancer

 

[nerfhearder]

I don't know but part of me really really really hopes Bruce Jenner ages very poorly.