Quote from: Jay-Bird on March 07, 2013, 06:22:21 AM
Hi's 
I noticed today much to my pleasant surprise my face is actually still changing! I actually saw a woman staring back at me in the mirror.
So to mark this momentous occasion and 15 months on HRT I thought I would post another Before and After. (Gah, thought it was 14 months, darn ticker)
I took these this afternoon, well the 2 on the right 
Anyone having doubts about HRT and its effectiveness, perhaps this will help somewhat.
(click on the pic, it gets bigger)
Wow, Jay-Bird, wow! You went from looking like some of the guys I did time with in prison, to a gorgeous woman in fifteen months, obviously a lifetime ago for you. You look fantastic, girl. You have much more changing ahead of you, but if you never had another change, you're already a very pretty woman! Congratulations! By the way, my ticker's off too, by one day, because today is my 18 month anniversary living full time. It has gone by so very, very fast and I wish I'd have appreciated it even more.
Quote from: Shantel on March 07, 2013, 08:28:11 AM
You are extremely talented Miranda, no doubt about it, and I used present tense although you have put the past behind you just as I and so many others have, and rightly so! It seems like another lifetime doesn't it? At least that's the way I see my past life. I listened to some of the songs and the lyrics in which, knowing you now as we are able here at Susan's, we can get the feeling that there was something ethereal missing from your life back then. Glad you made it sweetie, I'm happy for you!
Thank you, Shantel, so very much for listening to my songs and adding the present tense in 'talented.' I've thought a lot about really getting back into writing again, although I have never really stopped. I'm now writing as Miranda, but haven't been thinking much about something I know I should. I've got some really catchy melodies with incredibly depressing male lyrics. I have more than 1000 lyrics and 150 songs. Most of these songs are just sitting around on cassettes and CD's and lyrics w/chord changes, languishing in one notebook or another. I've been thinking about revamping many of the lyrics or starting them over from scratch from both a woman's point of view, and from a positive vantage. Shantel, It's such a trip to say it to myself, "you made it", but to hear it from you or someone else who knows who I really am and where I came from makes it even cooler! Unfortunately, without your own belief that you're a woman, passing, and unique, you can be the most beautiful woman alive, prettier than any cis-woman, and you'll still be unhappy. I know an absolutely beautiful transwoman in that category, and no matter what I tell her she can't get past the fact that she apparently needed to have FFS to make her so gorgeous. She still sees a man when she looks in the mirror. It's made me cry to see her so unhappy still, so I keep telling her how beautiful she is and pray for her sometimes. But the fact is that we're all wondrous, incredible women who know more about the human spirit and both sexes far more than any doctor, psychologist or anyone else who's only seen and felt what we've been able to tell them about our lives and our unique vantage points. It's kind of like trying to tell a drug counselor who's never had a drug problem what it's like to kick heroin, it's impossible. Hugs to everyone, Mira
