Update! I'm accidentally full time!My birthday is September 2nd, so Sept 1st is the last day I will answer to my boy name outside of official legal capacities until my name change.
I had picked this date at the very beginning. I figured I was giving myself enough time that way to get on hormones and get a good few months of them in before going FT. I got very lucky with both family support and cooperative doctors, and so I will be just a few days shy of three months on HRT when I go full time. :-)
But more importantly, I wanted to reach my crucial 1 year in role by the time I was 30. I don't make a big deal of surgery; I don't discuss it often and I have yet to be the first person to mention it in conversation. I downplay it a lot and I try not to focus on it because financially it is impossible today. However, I am in a rush to qualify because no matter what else, I don't ever want a delay in going full time to be the reason I have to wait.
I'm not ready for full time. I don't pass except to very casual glances and willing supporters. My voice is only 3/4 there which means it sounds like I'm trying too hard, still. But I'm going back to school, so the first day of classes is a
great time to go FT. I don't want anyone in my classes to know my old name. Not because I'm stealth, but because I don't ever want them associating me with that name. I'm fine with them knowing I'm trans; I just don't ever want anyone thinking my name is something optional.
So, ready or not, starting in September I will be Autumn to everyone.
