Is There a 'Right' Order to Gender Transition?

Dr. Z discusses in what order should transition go—is there a particular order to gender transition? She has a lot of people reach out asking whether the order that they're going in is the right order. A lot of people ask whether having surgery first before getting on hormones is the right way to go, or whether going on hormones before coming out is the best way to go, or if any of the other orders is particularly correct or accurate.

She doesn't think it's going to surprise anybody to hear her say that while there is (she would say hypothetically speaking) a primer of an order—she'd say it's not even an order, it's more a primer of the way people can do things which is a little bit more, well, she doesn't even want to say linear because she doesn't think it's necessarily linear per se (because any order really is linear)—but oftentimes people think of transition order in a way that you first become aware that you have dysphoria, then figure out what your identity is, once you figure out what your gender identity is you then come out (step into social transition), you switch your pronouns, start presenting in your authentic gender, may even legally change your name, then start medical transition in the form of some hormone regimen, then continue on this path, then step into surgical transition where gender affirming surgeries take place.

Watch this video as Dr. Z addresses why there is no such thing as "the order" for gender transition—there's only your order.