17. I stopped denying that being attracted to femboys was gay.

Really I should’ve recognized I was bi when my first boner to a man was the same year as my first boner period.

I never was like that in my life, so it doesn’t count for me.

My answer is for those who aren’t like this. I’ve met people in this community, and apart from a few bad apples based upon what I do, I hadn’t had any issues with them. Now, it’s said that people will hang out with those because of a shared interest, and while I had spoken to LGBTQ+ peeps, I never did anything under this banner.

9ish? Although due to bullying, homophobia, culture, I wasn’t “ok” with a label until I was in my late 30s.

I was 18 when I realized I felt the same way about Ro Laren and Maria Hill as I did about any men I thought were attractive but it wasn’t for several more years that I realized that when most people were attracted to someone they actually wanted to do something about it

15, I was too sacred to come out and gay marriage wasn’t legal in my state yet

I realized I was bi around 21, and probably around 25, I knew I was something other than a cis man. I didn’t know quite what, and examining that question too deeply was scary. Nonbinary felt right, but I actually started presenting more and more masculine, I guess as a way of covering up and trying to deny what I realized just after I turned 29 - I’m actually a trans woman. It’s been such a relief to understand that and be able to start my transition

Depends; looking back at things as a kid, probably as early as 5, based on my hobbies and interests.

But that was subconsciously before I knew what being gay or trans meant.

It was closer to 14 or 15 when I really discovered I was probably bisexual; thank you David Bowie, Brian Molko, and Velvet Goldmine.

I had a severely long cross-dressing and denial phase since like 2000s ish. It is all a blur. Somewhere around 2008 I lived by myself and had the freedom to explore and experiment in private. And then somewhere around 2021 I realized that I’m trans, possibly before then but denial is a hell of a drug. And then on Nov 2022 I finally started hormones. And now I’m 2 years into hormones and happy!

I started hormones at the age of 36 and now I’m 38.

I discovered I was good at flirting at 17. I also discovered that as soon as a girl starts making out with me or getting handsy I lose interest. My brain is like “yay, validation, we won, okay let’s go get a snack.”

Took me over a year to learn that asexuality is a spectrum and that there are other people who like sex in theory but can be repulsed by (or indifferent to) it in practice.

Early teens, around 13-14. I didn’t come out and transition until about age 25 though.

37- My spouse realized they were nonbinary, which made me do some self examination and realize I wasn’t as cis as I thought I was.

~30. I can’t be more precise, It was a long process realizing that what I am falls under LGBTQ. Maybe. I’m still afraid of being excluded.

6 or 7 - I experimented with kids my age, and it ‘clicked’. But I would struggle with that concept until I was about 12, when I decided ‘fuck this religious bullshit’. I started dating guys when I was 13, I was out to my friends the same year, the general population when I was 15, and finally my family at 21. Though for my family it wasn’t how I planned. I thought I was going to die soon; my original plan as a teen was to tell them on their death bed, mostly because of fear of physical violence. My family was very not-accepting growing up and through my teens. I lived in fear for all of my teenage+ years, many times not sleeping to make sure I wasn’t attacked in my sleep.

But yeah, at a very young age I was like ‘boys are cute’ and ‘wait a minute…’

I always thought I was “a little bi.” Growing up in the '80s in a religious household, I repressed tons. I didn’t realize that I was fully bisexual, or consider myself really “LBGTQ” until my forties.

12 or 13. but it took until I was 18 before I admitted it to myself and came out.

the 90s were a different time.