what is full time?

[Lily]

I'm full time because I never purposely present myself as male. I wear the clothes that suit me, and I express myself how I am most comfortable. I think that is what full time is, just being yourself. It has nothing to do with passability, which I certainly don't have any of right now.

[Lily]

Hate to do this, but a year is 365.25 days; 4 years between each leap year, one quarter a day each of those four years to add up to that one extra day.

Hate to do this, but a year is 365.2425 days; 4 years between each leap year, except for years evenly divisible by 100 unless they are also divisible by 400.

[rock chick]

Hate to do this, but a year is 365.2425 days; 4 years between each leap year, except for years evenly divisible by 100 unless they are also divisible by 400.

lol

[Jayne]

Hate to do this, but a year is 365.2425 days; 4 years between each leap year, except for years evenly divisible by 100 unless they are also divisible by 400.

Did you have to bring maths into this? You've given me a headache now     

In the details i've been sent by the Gender clinic in London it said that i've got to do 2 years of RLE before i'd be considerd for SRS, the downside of this for me is that until I can lose my facial hair I wont have the confidence to go out in public much as female let alone full time, I can't use heavy makeup to cover the 5 o'clock shadow & i've been advised that it could take a couple of years for electrolosys to remove this filthy, disgusting layer of hair. So it's going to be a long time before I can start my RLE

I feel this stipulation is unfairly harsh on those who have confidence issues from either facial hair or overly masculine features so in answer to your question of "what is full time" i'd say it's an unfair hurdle to place infront of someone who's already having a hard enough time in dealing with who they are.

Sorry if I took your original question out of context but i've spent the last month or so keeping things hidden from the strangers i'm forced to share a house with & it's doing my head in right now so i'm not in my normal mood of finding the bright side of things.

[jainie marlena]

@jane
Environment plays a big roll in wheather one can go full time. I think that is why I pushed to see how far I could go with waering my clothes in public.

[Mahsa Tezani]

When you werq 24/8

[Jayne]

@jane
Environment plays a big roll in wheather one can go full time. I think that is why I pushed to see how far I could go with waering my clothes in public.

I've been out in public as a woman & passed, unfortunately i've also had a few situations when i've not passed & the shadow was the obvious give away, it's resulted in me having to talk my way out of a fight with a group of drunk men twice now.
If it was just down to caring about what people think then I wouldn't give a damn & would have started RLE even with a facial shadow but when you aren't safe to walk the streets then you have to put making it to the next day before your desire to be comfortable with your who you are.

When you werq 24/8

Shouldn't that be 24/7 or am I sleeping through enire days again? 

[Mahsa Tezani]

Shouldn't that be 24/7 or am I sleeping through enire days again? 

Off topic:
There is in fact an eighth day. The government people don't tell you about it, but it's there.

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

Off topic:
There is in fact an eighth day. The government people don't tell you about it, but it's there.

where could that day be found?

[rock chick]

if theres an 8th day, i've been getting robbed regarding days off 

[Naturally Blonde]

When people bring up the subject of living full time a question often comes to mind, are they talking about consciously or subconsciously?

In my mind I've been living as a female all my life, I am naturally feminine and people have commented on my feminine appearance and behavior since childhood...

I was made to at least attempt to 'act' like a man by society's ideals of what a man is supposed to be... The more I tried to 'act' like a man, the more I was told how feminine I was and how everyone was going to make a man out of me

So to me, It is about self acceptance and allowing yourself to be who you are without having to putting on an act or show

Excellent post and I know where you are coming from. My early expriences were that I was often percieved as a girl in my teens and twenties and the most difficult thing was to try and pass myself off sucessfully as a bloke when I was younger . Going down the female route was more natural for me. I also used to get comments from my family like 'be a man' and I used to answer back 'no way'!

[jainie marlena]

What is RLE? Thought I would get it by now in context but no not really.

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

What is RLE? Thought I would get it by now in context but no not really.

neither do i, but i'm guessing it's interchangeable with fulltime. similarly how srs and grs are. i've heard of people going into the workplace so men would understand they are getting paid more, and expected to take on more responsibility, while women go to understand they are now getting paid less and now have to take a back seat in the career world.

[Mahsa Tezani]

where could that day be found?

Katherine McPhee knows.

[Shana A]

Off topic:
There is in fact an eighth day. The government people don't tell you about it, but it's there.

The Beatles sang about it... Eight Days a Week! 

Z

[Forever21Chic]

Off topic:
There is in fact an eighth day. The government people don't tell you about it, but it's there.

   I KNEW IT!!!   

[jainie marlena]

even the bible spoke of an eight day in the new testament

[V M]

The Beatles sang about it... Eight Days a Week! 

Z


The Beatles' knowledge and genius so often goes unrecognized 

[eli77]

Excellent post and I know where you are coming from. My early expriences were that I was often percieved as a girl in my teens and twenties and the most difficult thing was to try and pass myself off sucessfully as a bloke when I was younger . Going down the female route was more natural for me. I also used to get comments from my family like 'be a man' and I used to answer back 'no way'!

I started off in a similar situation as well - I always looked, talked, and moved more like a girl than a boy. When I was little (pre-puberty) nobody seemed to care much, but after that it was kinda a problem in school and whatnot. And having to correct someone who just gendered you female is one of the suckiest things ever.

It actually makes tracking when I went full time kind of confusing. I have a specific day (July 27th) where I officially stopped using my old name, got a new haircut, and plucked my eyebrows, but I hadn't passed as a guy in over a month by then. And I don't really have a dividing line for clothing - I still wear some guy's clothes cause I like 'em. I suppose starting off androgynous makes me lucky cause I'm entirely invisible now, but it helped make my teens and early twenties that much worse.

What is RLE? Thought I would get it by now in context but no not really.

Real Life Experience. The period where you are expected to live full time prior to approval for SRS (and it used to be for HRT too, but no more).

[jainie marlena]

@sarah7 thanks for answering my question.