I've always been a bit... weird about stuff. Whenever I was a little kid I thought I was a boy >_> to an extent and got confused why me and my brother didn't look alike (anatomically). I was always blow-offish about "girly" clothes and shit. My mom made the comment to me that when I was a toddler she'd try to fit me in pretty little dresses and I'd fight her the whole time and then get myself out of them and stuff.
I kinda grew outta that, because I had no answers, my parents are conservative etc. As i got older I just did my own thing, secretly dreaded puberty, found excuses to buy boys clothes because they were "more comfortable" and such. Couple times tried fitting the whole feminine thing and felt wrong or annoyed and would give up and go back to being "baggy clothes etc etc"
I was 17 when i stumbled across a thread on the internet about LGBT with focus on Trans people and then I was just kinda like... "omg wwait wut that... that sounds like" whenever I'd read about other people.

So I kinda embraced the idea, did some research andd ended up putting it outta mind in favor of focusing on school, my art and getting into college. College started and I started "questioning" ; more deeply, joined the LGBT club on campus and made a friend I talked to about it. I'd planned on bringing it up with my mom over winter break but her surgery went south, put her in a wheelchair. I was doing a lot of stupid, self-destructive shit to avoid dealing with all the pressure being put on me to take care of the house, my younger brother, run errands for her etc. Soo questioning got put to the back burner. I eventually just shoved it into a box in my mind and started doing things that "needed to be done" and started online school so I'd be around to help my mom, ended up dating (and wasting time on) a dude I used to attend school with... started trying to fit the whole "feminine" image again...

And my sense of 'self' crumbled. It started out with me stopping to look at myself in the mirror and wondering "who the fuck am i looking at?" and from there goals, dreams etc. kinda followed it because I felt I'd lost 'myself' (kinda hard to explain I guess) so I started trying to build a new persona to take on... nothing helped. I got hella bad anxiety attacks, couldn't figure out why thought it was stress from taking care of hte house, running errands, taking care of my mom and he animals and doing school and trying to devote time to a relationship. Developed extreme social anxiety andd yeah >_> shit fell apart

Till I got on the internet again and randomly started looking into gender stuff again... and then it was like it started coming back. Idk I"m still in the whole questioning phase so there's no time line on "when I started" so much as I'll be questioning and covertly exploring while I live with my parents until I move out... because I have this godawful feeling I'm going to considerably "dissapoint" my dad... and my bro has done that enough so I want stability and self reliance (or with roommates) before I broach the topic with them or start seriously transitioning anything.

And then there are those moments of doubt and panic and fear when I'm afraid it's all just temporary and will crumble away... >_>

WELL now that that was TMI time I'm going to flutter away and find another poll to take

One night after drinking Absinthe with a lovely gay boy I had a major crush on I started to do some serious intoxicated contemplating because of this sadness I felt over knowing that I would never even have a chance with him because I was born a female and expressed myself as one. I lamented over how unfair it was. That was when I started to do some serious reflection into my own gender identity.

I enjoy being a 'woman' but I never really feel like I'm a true woman. The others always seemed like they were something much different than what I was. But then again, I didn't feel like I was a 'man' either. After a long contemplation process that has finally come to a realization, I feel (as obscure as this sounds when I try to explain it) that I am a man in a woman's body, and that man enjoys expressing himself as a woman.

To hell with genders.

"Always been weird" resonates with me. But if I had to pick some age- I'd say when I hit puberty.
That was when I realized me and my brother were heading off into different anatomical paths, and I was confused. I thought the changes would go away, or continue into something else, but no cigar.
As I grew older, I tried fitting into my designated sex/gender, but I always had that feeling that something was off. I remember mostly feeling like my skin didn't fit me, and I'd always thought that maybe everyone felt that way and I'd grow out of it eventually. Again, no cigar. Then when I was 15ish, I learned about trans* people and things fell into place from there on

I think I've always known I was different. I remember when I was little my mom caught me crying in the bathroom with my pants down. It freaked her out until I explained that I was crying because I couldn't pee like a boy. So yeah, it made for an adorable childhood story :'P.

So yeah, I've kind of always questioned, but life was tough so it was never a priority. When you got one parent working 2 jobs to make ends meet and another shooting up on the couch (when he WAS there), the set you're born with becomes kind of mundane @_@. Then there's my many other medical issues @_@. Growing up wasn't fun XP.

When what's his face finally up and left for good, I was left to finally focus on myself. Unfortunately by that time I was in middle school, where people look down on different. It also doesn't help that my extended family is freaking Glen Beck conservative ;_;! So I tried my best to ignore it. I couldn't though, so I took to my fathers footsteps and began using as well. I was in that perpetual state of fuzzy until I was 19 when my boyfriend asked me to get sober. For the first time, I couldn't run from it. After a year I finally came to terms with it. I also came to terms with being attracted to men (you'd think dating a guy for 2 years would do that xD).

So yeah, about 2 years since then, I'm still with my boyfriend who's become my biggest support and I'm easing people into this whole thing. This shit is way harder to explain to a Latino family, who doesn't even believe this exists @_@. I'm getting there though, and I'm almost 3 years sober :'D!

Probably around my early teens

I under 13 when i started to have feelings towards girls and boys..

Sophomore year in highschool. So I guess 17-ish.

When I was a toddler I thought I was a boy. Then when I was 12-15 I thought I was lesbian, and later bisexual. I knew there were trans people, but thought I was cisgender because I liked fashion (?! I still didn't thought cismen who liked fashion were transwomen.)
At 15 I offended someone on a mailing-list by error :x (it was a women-only mailing-list, but really more of a "everybody but cismen" ML, so I thought a transman was a transwoman... because I got confused.) so I apologized and made real searches on gender. Then I gradually, progressively understood. Still thanking that person!

I think I was 15 or 16.

In all honesty, I've always had this burning desire to switch genders at will. I don't feel uncomfortable being female but I just hate that I can never be male, either. It's hard to put into words. As a child I wished that I could be both all the time.

I've had physical dysphoria/anxiety about my body, and a more abstract anxiety about gender, since I was very young (6 or 7?) It didn't concretely occur to me that it might be a gender thing until I was 14.

I knew something was off very early on, but I didn't know exactly what until I was round 13, I finally found a name for it around 16.

I always kind of found myself to be 'one of the boys' but didn't know I could actually DO SOMETHING about it until my mid teens, so, yehh.

I was a tomboy my whole life and always knew something was "off" but it wasn't until I was around 20 and learned there were others who felt the same way that I realized I had options

It wasn't a matter of questioning for me. I just thought everyone had to learn to be their birth gender. I learned later that most people act naturally. I realized that I could act the way I wanted to when I was about 14.

i was 2 or 3 when i was allowed to make my own choice about what i liked. i guess that's the age most gender differences start to show. until then, everyone plays with dolls and toy cars. i always identified as male. my mom tried to put a stop to it and forced femininity on me like crazy (beauty pageants, thafuck?!) but around the time i was 12 i realized it was a medical condition and i was done fighting biology.

My gender has always been niggling in the back of my mind since I was a kid, but I didn't start to fully questioning it until my teen years, when puberty set in.

I'd say first when i was about 7 or 8? I just started wearing boys clothes and told everybody i wish i was born a boy.

I was questioning through high school but all throughout my childhood I had certain sensations. When I was five, I'd take off my shirt and walk around, when seven, I suddenly didn't want my hair longer anymore. I couldn't ever socialize with people my sex either. When I hit fourteen or fifteen, I started to get a sensation like phantom erections. It wasn't until the end of high school that I even heard of the term transgender--that's what really started my transitioning, learning the word. That it existed and it was okay to do.

I think I was about 3 or 4 when I told my parents that I wished I'd been born a boy instead. And I kept saying things like that throughout my childhood. But all I kept hearing from my family was pretty much 'oh well you're a girl, you'll have to live as one.' (Though I was actually born intersex, so...) But then it wasn't until college I found out about being transgender, and decided I was trans then.

I think it was my pre-teens (11-12)

It really hit me in my junior year of high school, and made me kind of miserable until the summer before college, when I took a lot of time to just be by myself and think about what I wanted from my life. There is an awesome and supportive community at my college, so being genderqueer is a lot less scary than I;d imagined it would be, at least for me at the moment.

I should have known earlier /rolls eyes. I was always gender non-conforming and "wished I was a boy." But I didn't really know trans* people existed. My freshman year of college, I first learned about trans* stuff and I really connected with it. So I guess I didn't find words for my identity until I was 18 or so.