i feel like i want a sex change at the age of 18..?

There are two sides to this. If it took a documentary to have you come to this realization, you're probably just identifying with some of the characters and those documentaries do a great job of showing how the grass is greener on the other side, but there are consequences to every decision. You need to be sure that it's not the allure of how the sex change fixes everything that these documentaries present. Get everything else under control and let it set in a few years. I have three examples for you.

Example 1) I had a friend name Tamar. Tamar was a girl and a lesbian for the most part. She after some researching decided that she didn't believe in gender and just wanted to be known as gender neutral. Tamar after much thought (over a year) decided Tamar was no longer Tamar the gender neutral person but decided that she was Caleb the man and began taking Testosterone. We lost touch so I have no idea if she's had her breasts removed, but I know that she would have waited at least 3 years before making that drastic decision as that was the last I heard from her/him. Last I heard, he was very happy with his decision.

Example 2) Allie was a bisexual woman. Loved the color pink, loved being a girl, not one month after seeing the documentary Transgeneration was she certain that she was a he though she'd never really mentioned it, acted like it, or talked about it. Allie began taking Testosterone and had her breasts removed. Shortly after she regretted it because she didn't go to the required psychological evaluation (she lives in a VERY liberal state so it wasn't required), she didn't think it through, and now she's constantly questioning if her mangled chest and harry body is what she really desires.

Example 3) This is just to show you how different you are at 24 than you were at 18. I was a Tomboy, look exactly like my dad, so a lot of people would always get me confused when I was little. I was a little chubby so I pretty much more baggy jeans and tee-shirts because I was ashamed of my body. I cut my long straight hair in 5th grade and the next day my body decided *that* would be a good time to hit puberty with full force. My cute little pixie cut turned into a full fledged afro because my straight hair turned curly. So here I was with an afro, baggy jeans, tee-shirts, basketball playing Tomboy who got teased relentlessly and never had a boyfriend. At about 14 I saw this movie where I identified with the main character so much that I began to question my sexuality. Girls responded a lot better to me than guys did because guys never approached me but girls did so I figured that meant I was gay. I had my moments of experimentation, but here I am at 24, the girliest girl you've ever seen, I weigh less than I have in a decade, and I'm dating this really hot soldier who's a man. I never thought the girl I am today was a possibility for me given the girl I was at 14, 18, and even 20.

It's all your decision....but from my experience if I had gotten a sex change at 18, I'd be fully regretting it now at 24 because of how much I've grown over the past six years. Your brain does not fully develop until your early 20's.

My only advice is that it's okay to feel that way, but maybe dress more girly, put on a pair of dangly earrings, and put on a little make-up, style your hair, work-out, and see if that changes the way people respond to you and it might have you thinking otherwise. Give it a couple of years and if you still feel this way then that's your choice.

The older the guy the more he will expect you to have had sex. You don't have to have sex before you enter college, but your first year there plan on doing it. Most guys will expect to find a virgin or two in the first year. Also, a quick poll I did a month or so ago showed that the older the guy the less likely he wanted to be your first. You don't have to give it away just because you've done it, but get some experience in the next year or so. And love does not have to enter the equation here, in fact I think in your case you should skip the love part. Just find a guy you are attracted to and ask him out. if you like, ask him out again, then tell him you want him to teach you how to please a guy. He'll get the hint.

It sounds like you're just a TomBoy. What are you attracted to? You're 18 and you're still exploring life and finding out who you are....wait a long while, this is a drastic decision. When you're much much older if you still feel the need then that will be your choice; but really what will a sex change accomplish? If you don't have it together mentally a sex change is not going to fix anything. Talk to somebody, get therapy or just continue to grow and live life and see where it takes you.

if you get a sex change ur still gonna be in the same body i personally would never do somthing like that you think it will make you happy but thats a big change wow they really was setting you up for this one maybe conseling or somthing first to get thoughts straight or have sex with a guy see how that feels

there must be some support groups where you can meet up with some like minded people and be put in touch with the right people if you ever decide to give it a try. that's really all you can do. Don't worry about your parents. Find the right kinda support and come to terms with it yourself first before you worry about them

Well... sex change requires alot of money, and if you go through how do you know you won't like it?

I guess for now, think CAREFULLY about this, if this is the right decision.. it is honestly life changing..

And acquire the money, and just try to find someone who is suitable to do it.

Don't do it. Your body is not your own. I have questioned God many times on why he made me the way i am but would never change as it would be a grave insult to him. We are made the way we are for a reason.

i have a reali goood think before i do anytin xxxxxxxx

don't do it