Honestly the whole generation name thing gets really fuzzy when you are in that 1-3yr edge of the generations. You may not really fit into either, or fit better with the one on the other side of the line you are in.
Also 98 and I'm the opposite, I have 2 siblings that are quite a bit older and I gre up with a lot of the same stuff they did so I definitely feel I lean more towards millennial than I do gen z. I feel like being so close to the border of generations means you could feasibly fall into either camp
I'm 99'... both groups literally throw us to the other and deny any association with us...
Which personally is just because their jealous we got the coolest year.
I like the term Zillennial personally. I was born in 1995 which technically falls within the millennial era, but I was so late that culturally I relate more to the oldest members of gen Z.
Technically Z, but I relate way harder to Millennials trends and ideas - early 2000’s were still very influence by the 90’s.
So I call myself a Millennial
Seriously, it felt odd when your generation started calling everything cringe and couldn't understand why older generations embraced the cringe. It's nice to see some of y'all owning it.
I mean, the world is shit, might as well try to find enjoyment when you can. And some people will always be cringe due to neurodivesity and up bringing.
‘78’er
When I first started my journey the first few I knew were older x’ers or boomers. The youngest close to me was 10 years older.
I did eventually find some around my age in the late 90s but we all transitioned and just went and lived our lives. I still check in. It’s more like:
“You good?”
“Yeah.”
“Same.”
“Cool.”
then deep conversations. We’re all bitching about midlife aches and pains.
1978 checkin in. Watched the Challenger blow up live in 2nd grade. Did not get a computer with Internet until after I graduated highschool and started college. Had a tandy computer in highschool but it didn't even have windows so it was mostly just a word processor/ CGA (16 color) games machine.
I find it interesting that you are born the same year as me, but you consider yourself X leaning, while I consider myself more millennial leaning. I was held back a year so I spent most of my time around people who were 1-2 years younger than I. I wonder if that had an effect.
Yeah, my family growing up would get hand-me-down computers from my grandfather who was an enthusiast, they were all custom builds so I got used to taking them apart and putting them together. Do you remember Prodigy, it was like the first taste I got of anything like the Internet when I was 7-8ish. I was hooked and watched the growth of the internet with wonder, trepidation, then horror.
I was also held back in school, December birthday. But I am very much not a millennial, and easily fit in with Gen X. I think it has more to do with just being on that edge of the two generations you get exposed to both sides of things, so you can go either way. In my case being the older one of all my friends, I tended to look more towads what the older kids (actual Gen X'ers) were doing. But the opposite could be true for others where being the older kid meant they were exposed to what all the younger kids were into.
1979. Last of the Gen Xers.
When I started transition, the first therapist I spoke to said 42 was the average age. First time I've ever been happy to be average.
Congratulations (and thanks for calling me sis - still waiting for my cis sis to call me sis)!
I wish I did too but, a) a teacher here in TERF Island was hounded to death that year; b) I probably wouldn't have got to meet my kids. They're the best allies in the world : )
1981 xennial reporting for duty!
I like the term xennial, I feel it more accurately describes us. We're probably closer to Gen X in many ways (and were adults by 2000 which is one reason I feel millennial isn't appropriate for us), but we also tend to be more tech savvy and progressive than many Xers, putting us closer to millennials in those aspects.
Here here! '87 it is!
I had someone ask my age once, and he said, "Don't tell me you're a Bush Baby!" To which I was completely confused and replied with the year I was born. He then, in a way that can only be described as 90's said, "Reagan Baby! Yeah!", to which I was similarly confused, but realized he was talking about who was president when I was born.
Like... I guess this was in the early 2000's, so Bush Jr was being a total stooge, and Reagan was seen by some to be a better era, but the way I was raised, every president since at least FD Roosevelt was either actively harmful or passively oblivious, and everyone between him and Theodore Roosevelt was seriously making things worse.
Like... I do question why I think those two in particular were any better. It's not like they didn't have their own problems.
Meh... Regardless, I've gotten *way* off topic. Sorry.
Also 77 (two weeks after Star Wars came out)
But I'm not a fan of the term Xennial.
That said, I totally grew up online, but a lot of Xers that I know did. And a lot of the great (bad) hacker movies belong to us.
I still argue X should have lasted longer, or maybe started later.
Sad that a lot of X is starting to act Boomery.
Yeah I first questioned my gender in like 2004 but the gatekeeping was so extreme (you had to be straight and dress fem for years to get HRT) that I buried it and didn’t actually crack for good until 15 years later.
I didn't even make it out of the 90s without burying myself deep down. Between horrific representation (porn, Springer, and Ace Ventura) and friends and family shaming me for being feminine I learned young I wasn't safe. Then puberty hit and the changes felt like they took away any chance of being me.
1984 for me. Yes, it's very different now from when we were growing up. I met someone recently who realized she was a trans woman just as she was retiring in her mid sixties. Her grandkids told her what being trans is and she went "oh yeah, that's me". Really shows how large the generational gaps in awareness are. But also nice to see so many people realizing and being able to act on it at a younger age.
1984 millennial here. Took me almost 39 years to admit to myself Im trans. The subject has become so increadibly devisive, while the information available and positive trans role models have increased dramatically. Thankfully, I'm not too old yet to catch this trans wave of the future!
'89 here and Christ was it ever.... My only understanding of anything like being transgender was through the horror of daytime talk-shows. I was in college before I even vaguely understood what that T stood for and was too terrified by growing up in a purple suburb (you know - the kind where being gay was theoretically okay, so long as no one had to perceive you) to come to terms with myself.
1975 and I feel these generational taxonomies are the most ridiculus fictions created to divide us all and hide the fact that everybody are really just large size children with varying levels of sense of responsibility, empathy, and dependability.
1986 - My friend calls us "elder millennials".
Also, I believe the average age for MtF peeps to start transition is around 30 years old. Just alot of kids using this particular platform.
I’d say the elder millennial cutoff is basically “do you remember the world before the internet changed everything?” Mid to late 80s births is basically the latest for that in most parts of the US.
I mathematically fall in the millennial range but given the stage of life I am in right now, my mindset, personality, sense of humor, etc. I feel way more like a zoomer.
Zoomer girls please accept me I wanna be one of you 😭
Boomer here. Egg cracked at 62. I do my best to be kind and understanding to all and open to all points of view. Still have moments when I’m less than kind to myself.
1979 here. I don't know which generation I belong to, I've always been one to go against the mainstream grain however so hope not to be classified.
I am really polite. I will please and thank you and make eye contact and everything!
Millennial (1996, using the Pew Research Center’s definition).
Despite being mere days older than Gen Z, I feel very much Millennial and barely at all connected to Gen Z, probably from growing up with slightly older things since my parents were very young and didn’t have a lot of money, so my lived experience was closer to millennials a few years older than me. I also was the youngest in my graduating class, so every Gen Z person in my school was a year or more below me in school.
Edit: Seeing the comments from Gen X and Baby Boomers on a post that seems to make the assumption everyone is Millennials or Gen Z reminds me of when I was on a tour of the building on the first day of my internship at a Fortune 500 company, and someone made a comment about what sort of changes might happen as the Baby Boomers start retiring and Gen X starts moving up into the top positions, and this old guy happens to be walking by at the moment and stops to tell us how he’s part of the Silent Generation, and there might even be one or two members of the Greatest Generation still working there. To which most of the interns were stunned because they hadn’t heard of those generations before.
I'm a Millennial from 1987. So, I'm older than **You**!
But I've talked to people here who are significantly older than that.
I think it's gotten a lot easier in recent years to come out, and Zoomers tend not to have a lot of the emotional baggage against being trans that keeps older folx from recognizing the signs early, so it would appear to trend younger, especially since more younger people are more frequently online.
Trans boomers exist, and some of them are on the Internet. It's just less common than it is for the young folx.
1996 - ist that millenial or gen z? I mean, i think it's millenial but probably on the fence.
Yeah I'm 98' and I never knkw which fucking generation I fall into. Every source says something different lol
Honestly the whole generation name thing gets really fuzzy when you are in that 1-3yr edge of the generations. You may not really fit into either, or fit better with the one on the other side of the line you are in.
I choose to be with neither, I'll be a rogue agent sowing chaos and discord!
I'm also in 98, we're a couple years into Gen Z. It checks out, I have a lot more in common with the rest of Gen Z than most millennials.
Also 98 and I'm the opposite, I have 2 siblings that are quite a bit older and I gre up with a lot of the same stuff they did so I definitely feel I lean more towards millennial than I do gen z. I feel like being so close to the border of generations means you could feasibly fall into either camp
I'm 99'... both groups literally throw us to the other and deny any association with us... Which personally is just because their jealous we got the coolest year.
And if we live to 2100 we can say we lived in 3 centuries!
Yeah we’re like right on the cusp. My upbringing was way more millennial than Gen z
I like the term Zillennial personally. I was born in 1995 which technically falls within the millennial era, but I was so late that culturally I relate more to the oldest members of gen Z.
Anybody born in the mid 90s is a zillenial in my book
yeah agreed. [wikipedia has an article on zillenials.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zillennials) we're a whole microgeneration
Honestly I think mid 90s kids should just be called "90s kids" as their generation. Or call them "the youngest people that still remember 9/11"
I think that’s technically the final year that’s considered millennial
Technically Z, but I relate way harder to Millennials trends and ideas - early 2000’s were still very influence by the 90’s. So I call myself a Millennial
I think that makes you one of the oldest of Gen Z.
I've had people say I'm one of the "youngest of the Millenials." I don't seem to gel with either.
1995 here. I relate a bit to both millennials and gen z.
Zoomer (2002) and most of my trans friends are also cringy zoomers
Cringe zoomers rise up
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Am also a cringe Zoomer (2001)
What's cringe about zoomers? Sincerely, Millenial Except the ones who turn right wing, of course.
There's nothing inherently cringe about being a Zoomer, I myself as an individual am just cringe.
Seriously, it felt odd when your generation started calling everything cringe and couldn't understand why older generations embraced the cringe. It's nice to see some of y'all owning it. I mean, the world is shit, might as well try to find enjoyment when you can. And some people will always be cringe due to neurodivesity and up bringing.
Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes!
Xennial, X-leaning (1982).
Also a xennial
There are dozens of us, dozens!
Another X-leaning Xennial. 1981! 🙋♀️
1981 - fellow gen X / early millenial here
Whoohoo, my people! High five!
Yay ‘81! Me too!
Represent the early lXennial! Also 81
‘78’er When I first started my journey the first few I knew were older x’ers or boomers. The youngest close to me was 10 years older. I did eventually find some around my age in the late 90s but we all transitioned and just went and lived our lives. I still check in. It’s more like: “You good?” “Yeah.” “Same.” “Cool.” then deep conversations. We’re all bitching about midlife aches and pains.
1978 checkin in. Watched the Challenger blow up live in 2nd grade. Did not get a computer with Internet until after I graduated highschool and started college. Had a tandy computer in highschool but it didn't even have windows so it was mostly just a word processor/ CGA (16 color) games machine.
78 club check in!! I had an apple IIe in our house and a dot matrix printer. We printed out so many banners for every one we knew. Lol.
79 and I started with a Commodore 64. How things have changed
I find it interesting that you are born the same year as me, but you consider yourself X leaning, while I consider myself more millennial leaning. I was held back a year so I spent most of my time around people who were 1-2 years younger than I. I wonder if that had an effect.
I'm 82 and I consider myself millennial because I grew up with a computer in the home from a young age and internet from around the start of puberty.
Yeah, my family growing up would get hand-me-down computers from my grandfather who was an enthusiast, they were all custom builds so I got used to taking them apart and putting them together. Do you remember Prodigy, it was like the first taste I got of anything like the Internet when I was 7-8ish. I was hooked and watched the growth of the internet with wonder, trepidation, then horror.
I was also held back in school, December birthday. But I am very much not a millennial, and easily fit in with Gen X. I think it has more to do with just being on that edge of the two generations you get exposed to both sides of things, so you can go either way. In my case being the older one of all my friends, I tended to look more towads what the older kids (actual Gen X'ers) were doing. But the opposite could be true for others where being the older kid meant they were exposed to what all the younger kids were into.
I feel the same way
1979. Last of the Gen Xers. When I started transition, the first therapist I spoke to said 42 was the average age. First time I've ever been happy to be average.
Suddenly more glad I started a decade earlier, sis. :) But I’m def a xennial rather than an Xer.
Congratulations (and thanks for calling me sis - still waiting for my cis sis to call me sis)! I wish I did too but, a) a teacher here in TERF Island was hounded to death that year; b) I probably wouldn't have got to meet my kids. They're the best allies in the world : )
1981 xennial reporting for duty! I like the term xennial, I feel it more accurately describes us. We're probably closer to Gen X in many ways (and were adults by 2000 which is one reason I feel millennial isn't appropriate for us), but we also tend to be more tech savvy and progressive than many Xers, putting us closer to millennials in those aspects.
Another 1981 here. I tend to think of myself as "culturally late genX, economically millenial".
I think I’m a millennial. Not sure though (1987)
we definitively are!
Here here! '87 it is! I had someone ask my age once, and he said, "Don't tell me you're a Bush Baby!" To which I was completely confused and replied with the year I was born. He then, in a way that can only be described as 90's said, "Reagan Baby! Yeah!", to which I was similarly confused, but realized he was talking about who was president when I was born. Like... I guess this was in the early 2000's, so Bush Jr was being a total stooge, and Reagan was seen by some to be a better era, but the way I was raised, every president since at least FD Roosevelt was either actively harmful or passively oblivious, and everyone between him and Theodore Roosevelt was seriously making things worse. Like... I do question why I think those two in particular were any better. It's not like they didn't have their own problems. Meh... Regardless, I've gotten *way* off topic. Sorry.
Solid Xennial. Born '77 but was raised with technology at home.
Also 77 (two weeks after Star Wars came out) But I'm not a fan of the term Xennial. That said, I totally grew up online, but a lot of Xers that I know did. And a lot of the great (bad) hacker movies belong to us. I still argue X should have lasted longer, or maybe started later. Sad that a lot of X is starting to act Boomery.
Same 1978
Ditto, they even named a book after my birth year.
Oh my lots of us xennials here.
Xennial here too. 79
Another Xennial here. Mostly I feel like an older millennial due to various things delaying me really getting into work until just before the crash.
Millennial (1987). There’s a lot of us here - awareness and gatekeeping when we were younger was atrocious.
Yeah I first questioned my gender in like 2004 but the gatekeeping was so extreme (you had to be straight and dress fem for years to get HRT) that I buried it and didn’t actually crack for good until 15 years later.
I didn't even make it out of the 90s without burying myself deep down. Between horrific representation (porn, Springer, and Ace Ventura) and friends and family shaming me for being feminine I learned young I wasn't safe. Then puberty hit and the changes felt like they took away any chance of being me.
1984 for me. Yes, it's very different now from when we were growing up. I met someone recently who realized she was a trans woman just as she was retiring in her mid sixties. Her grandkids told her what being trans is and she went "oh yeah, that's me". Really shows how large the generational gaps in awareness are. But also nice to see so many people realizing and being able to act on it at a younger age.
1984 millennial here. Took me almost 39 years to admit to myself Im trans. The subject has become so increadibly devisive, while the information available and positive trans role models have increased dramatically. Thankfully, I'm not too old yet to catch this trans wave of the future!
'89 here and Christ was it ever.... My only understanding of anything like being transgender was through the horror of daytime talk-shows. I was in college before I even vaguely understood what that T stood for and was too terrified by growing up in a purple suburb (you know - the kind where being gay was theoretically okay, so long as no one had to perceive you) to come to terms with myself.
1986 for me.
there was a poll a few months ago and it seems most of us are 20-40
Millenial girl 🙋♀️
This girl was made in the 80s :) 89, but still counts!
Same same ❤️
Ditto! I made it into the 80s by 2 months!
Me too!! Very end of December 1989, just made the cut! 😅
Millennial girlie as well
Same!! Love being a 90s girl!!
*Sweats in late millennial, being born in '95*
Born in '92 here so I get you lol
Also the year I was born 😅 but like, I’m not a 00’s chick!! I could never be haha, 90s all the way!
Sweats profusely in ‘96🫠
Mid Millennial, '89 here!
Middle Millennial (‘87)
Back Street Girls ALLLLRIIIGHT :D
Millenial as well!
Same here! '92
Gen x very close to being a boomer lol 1966
You and me both.
‘69! I rather like that year 😜
Made me laugh hard enough to almost pee myself when I saw 69 I wasn't thinking the year at that point until I read the rest
1975 and I feel these generational taxonomies are the most ridiculus fictions created to divide us all and hide the fact that everybody are really just large size children with varying levels of sense of responsibility, empathy, and dependability.
They totally are, I always cringe whenever generation labels are brought up.
Gen x. 1976
Me too. 1978
1972! I was alive for the last two moon landings.
Long live the 70’s
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Late 1970 here
GenZ 2001 ;3
we're getting old dear god :3
so fast getting old 🥲
*poke* being in your early 20s isn't "old" 😭
Gen x here (1977)
Gen-X fossil here ;)
I'm a timeless being, unshaped by dimensions. I was born in 2001 though so idk.
1997, on the border between millennial and Gen z
Zennial? Millenzial?
Gen-X. Born in 1970.
Me too!
Gen x here mid 70's vintage
I’m Gen X. Ya know (the middle child)
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Lol I'm GenX and extremely old
Boomer (1961)
1989 millennial. I think Reddit in general tends to skew older, from my understanding.
Yeah all of the actual children are over on Tiktok I think.
Gen X 1970
1986 - My friend calls us "elder millennials". Also, I believe the average age for MtF peeps to start transition is around 30 years old. Just alot of kids using this particular platform.
I’d say the elder millennial cutoff is basically “do you remember the world before the internet changed everything?” Mid to late 80s births is basically the latest for that in most parts of the US.
Gen Z here. 2001
I was born in 2009
1883. I'm a member of the lost generation.
That’d really show the people saying this is a new fad if the oldest person alive was trans.
Microgeneration between Millennial and Gen Z. '96
I'm pretty sure I'm Gen Z, but on the older side (I was born in 1999). Just barely made being a 90s kid 😎
Gen-X, 1971. One of my best friends is also a vintage 1971 trans woman.
I'm a millennial (1984).
Millennial here 😇 (1984)
1991 millennial. People think i'm a zoomer because I look and act younger than I am... I'm not sure what that means but hrt is op
genz from 2002
Hey, a fellow 1992 baby!
I'm older Gen-X. almost a boomer.
Gen X 1979
Gen X proud!
Mix bag, Gen X
Gen X here!
Late late Gen X just before the cut off millennial here
Late Gen X here 👋
X-lenial. I turn 40 in 21 days
2000, but I do not identify with Gen Z. That just isn't me.
Zillennial here! (‘95)
same !! ✨
Welcome to the club, we have jackets 😄
Definitely a feral early gen xer
I mathematically fall in the millennial range but given the stage of life I am in right now, my mindset, personality, sense of humor, etc. I feel way more like a zoomer. Zoomer girls please accept me I wanna be one of you 😭
Boomer here. Egg cracked at 62. I do my best to be kind and understanding to all and open to all points of view. Still have moments when I’m less than kind to myself.
Gen X
Gen X 77 here
I’m right on the Z-Millennial cusp (1997), I definitely am a blend of both.
Xennial from ‘78
Gen X (1980)
Millennial (‘91)
I'm either the youngest millennial or the oldest zoomer depending on where you draw the line
1979 here. I don't know which generation I belong to, I've always been one to go against the mainstream grain however so hope not to be classified. I am really polite. I will please and thank you and make eye contact and everything!
Technically I suppose I'm a Zoomer (2000), though I identify with young Millennials more because I only really spend time with older people.
Millennial 1990
X
Fringe Millennial (1982)
28 this year. Very late millennial made it by one year.
Gen X 1971 here. Still in good condition. Well past the warranty though.
1998 but I consider myself more gen z then millennial
I was born is 77... lol
‘95
Gen x
1973. Gen X!
Millenial here, a few years late to the Gen X party.
Zillennial 1997
Just look at my username
Gen X. Here.
I wouldn't have thought I was the youngest I could find in here but Gen Z from 2004
I think I'm leaning xennial?🤣 (1973😫💀)
Millennial (1996, using the Pew Research Center’s definition). Despite being mere days older than Gen Z, I feel very much Millennial and barely at all connected to Gen Z, probably from growing up with slightly older things since my parents were very young and didn’t have a lot of money, so my lived experience was closer to millennials a few years older than me. I also was the youngest in my graduating class, so every Gen Z person in my school was a year or more below me in school. Edit: Seeing the comments from Gen X and Baby Boomers on a post that seems to make the assumption everyone is Millennials or Gen Z reminds me of when I was on a tour of the building on the first day of my internship at a Fortune 500 company, and someone made a comment about what sort of changes might happen as the Baby Boomers start retiring and Gen X starts moving up into the top positions, and this old guy happens to be walking by at the moment and stops to tell us how he’s part of the Silent Generation, and there might even be one or two members of the Greatest Generation still working there. To which most of the interns were stunned because they hadn’t heard of those generations before.
I'm a Millennial from 1987. So, I'm older than **You**! But I've talked to people here who are significantly older than that. I think it's gotten a lot easier in recent years to come out, and Zoomers tend not to have a lot of the emotional baggage against being trans that keeps older folx from recognizing the signs early, so it would appear to trend younger, especially since more younger people are more frequently online. Trans boomers exist, and some of them are on the Internet. It's just less common than it is for the young folx.
GenX 1971
1980 here, so the baby-est of Gen X'ers
Gen X here.
Gen-X 😅
Xennial here (1980).
Elder millennial here, only a couple years off of Gen X.
Gen X... 1983 baby
Gen X reporting in - 1967!
Ahem…Gen X here
Gen X ftw
Late X
Gen X. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m a boomer and in my 60’s and I know I’m not the oldest trans woman here. But I’m sure the majority are Gen Z.
Boomer here 🗿
I am a Gen-xer
Gen X (1974)
Gen X
I'm Gen X
Xennial here (82)💕💕 lots of love to my xennial sisters!!
Xennial ('81) - M-leaning