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SSG Jacey R.
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I would be happy to also try and answer any questions, at the best I can.
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SSG Diane R.
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Most transgender people know they are different by the time they are four or five years old but at that age it is very difficult to articulate this to one's parents. It is a condition that has long been with us and often improperly diagnosed. It is in fact a very rare condition affecting something like 0.05% of people in the general population.

Ones gender is the basic component of one's identity, a mismatch between one's mind and body is an incredibly debilitating condition.

CW3 Lind CW3 Lindsey Muller,LTJG (Join to see), and SSG Jacey R. can explain this better than I.
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SGT Intelligence/Electronic Warfare (Iew) Ncoic
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So I guess me initial question would be where does this all begin in someone's life?
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SGT (Join to see) - Great question. For most of us, we know that we are the other gender from a very young age. I knew when I was three that I wasn't supposed to be a boy, even though I didn't have the ability to put that into words that made sense. Transgender people have been around forever. Trans people have served in every war America has entered. It is only recently that people can openly say that they are transgender, because a hundred years ago you would be thrown into an asylum along with left handed people and kids with ADHD.

Thankfully, our society has progressed a little since then, as have medical knowledge and abilities. As a result, it may seem like people are just now becoming trans because it is "popular" when we've really been here all along, and we've known that we are who we are our whole lives.
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