After years or decades of living, working and building within their male persona, it is often too “expensive” to give up the life, perks, family, etc., one has built up—in order to go back to basics and have an emotionally 12 year old girl grow up—and live in a once male 40+ year old body. But no one is too old to transition. I have had many people in their 40’s and 50’s transition very successfully. I have even had some clients in their 60’s and 70’s.
However far one is able to go toward dismantling the male persona and allowing their female subjective gender to develop, one generally seems to have the following three levels of transition: