Where you you after two years

[bradlee2100]

This week marks the second year that I have been out.
When it rolled around your second year of being out, where were you at in your transition?

[caseyyy]

Two years later, I have a lot more confidence to show for it but haven't made physical progress yet due to financial/family issues.

[bradlee2100]

Same here. I have gotten to the point where I will actually go out into public places and to stand up for myself.
Though I haven't gotten anywhere physically since my therapist didn't want anything to do with my transition.

[Nathan.]

2 years later and I've been on T for a year and 3 months and I had top surgery 7 months ago. I am a lot more comfortable with myself and i'm not depressed anymore. I see a future for myself now.

[Zerro]

Two years later and I've finally gotten my name change paperwork filed and am about to schedule an appointment at the Whitman-Walker clinic to start T. I have about $500 saved towards top surgery with Garramone and am trying to start a body building program for my own benefit. :) It's taking a while and I still have bad days, but things are looking up.

[wesxx]

I'm 3 months on T, waiting on my social security card with my new name so I can change everything else, planning top surgery and living my life the way I want to be living it (for the most part).

[Aussie Jay]

2 years after coming out I had changed my name, gender marker on my licence and at other establishments like insurance, with work, tax etc, and I was about 1 year and 9 months on T. I was more confident and actually feeling like I was interacting with the world rather than just existing in it if that makes sense. I am also 'man enough' finally to correct people if they mess up the pronoun (it's rare) to their face in the moment - last person was my boss who knew he screwed up, he came over and told me to slap him upside the head - so I did! I am now just waiting for my top surgery date to roll around (may), waiting to hear about my hysto from the local hospital so I can change my birth certificate and passport and I'm also weighing up any other bottom surgeries I want to have! 2012 is a big year for me 

[Nygeel]

After being out for 2 years I was pretty much in the same place I started with.

[bradlee2100]

2 years later and I've been on T for a year and 3 months and I had top surgery 7 months ago. I am a lot more comfortable with myself and i'm not depressed anymore. I see a future for myself now.

Ever since I starting living as a pre-t pre-op male, I could actually see myself beyond high school. Since around 5th grade, I had always promised myself that I would never make it to high school, and if I did, I would take my life because I could not imagine living as a girl.

[bradlee2100]

2 years after coming out I had changed my name, gender marker on my licence and at other establishments like insurance, with work, tax etc, and I was about 1 year and 9 months on T. I was more confident and actually feeling like I was interacting with the world rather than just existing in it if that makes sense. I am also 'man enough' finally to correct people if they mess up the pronoun (it's rare) to their face in the moment - last person was my boss who knew he screwed up, he came over and told me to slap him upside the head - so I did! I am now just waiting for my top surgery date to roll around (may), waiting to hear about my hysto from the local hospital so I can change my birth certificate and passport and I'm also weighing up any other bottom surgeries I want to have! 2012 is a big year for me 

My mom told me that she will talk with my dad to try to get him to let me change my name before I'm 18, which would be within the next 6 months.
I always felt like I was just drifting around, and I still am.  At school I never contribute, I just sit there and wait for the day to be over.  I'm hoping that will change with I get on T and get comfortable with my voice.

[bradlee2100]

After being out for 2 years I was pretty much in the same place I started with.

Same with me. All that has changed has been my mom being super supportive of me and looking towards starting physically transitioning.

[Kreuzfidel]

Two years ago, I was planning on what method I'd use to take my life.  Now I'm living full-time as male and hopefully about to start HRT.

[MaxAloysius]

My two year mark has just rolled around too. I've had my name legally changed for around 14 months, and have been on T for 6 months.

[Adio]

Two years after coming out, I was still in high school without much social, medical, or legal transitioning.  I was fairly stuck and in a bad place.  It was about then when I was very messed up (undiagnosed bipolar disorder) and turned hyper-religious, going back in the closest, and living as a "straight female".

It's now been two years since I've started T and 2.5 years since I started presenting "full-time" as male.  So much has changed and I'm so much happier.  Almost everyone that knew me before has made positive remarks about my changes, both physical and emotional.  People that didn't know me before think I'm just a happy, upbeat person.  After getting on T, changing my name and gender marker, and having top surgery, my life has been great.

[Alexmakenoise]

It was about 2 years ago that I joined Susan's and also started making a point of coming out to people.  I'm still horribly repressed, gender-wise.  There were other areas of my life that needed improvement, and I had to focus on those first.  2 years ago, I had just come back from a really hard time overseas and was staying at my dad's house in a lonely little city in the northeast.  Now I have a good job in my field, live in SF, and have built a life for myself that centers around music.  I think I'm finally ready to think about gender again.

[Kyle_S]

Lots more confidence, out to friends, mom, work. Legal name change, saw a therapist who confirmed I know what I'd be doing, and soon contacting a GP for Testosterone treatment.

[harlee]

Its been about 2 years for me now as well, and I feel like I have gotten nowhere! I cant legally change anything because Im under aged, and my parents wont give me permission to start hormones  They still dont use the right pronouns either. At least I was able to go to school as male for 1 and a half years

[HarryP]

After 2 years: I had come out to my parents, friends and uni tutors, legally changed my name and ID, graduated as male, got a job and had a boyfriend who viewed us as a gay couple (most of this was done during my 2nd year of transition). However, my parents were not really accepting of my decision (mum wouldn't come to my graduation) and the wider family were not all aware of the situation. I also passed about 60% of the time, and probably only 50% at work.

A year later, and my parents wrote my new name on my Xmas presents for the 1st time and we have told the family. I am stealth at work and pass about 75% of the time. I am still with my boyfriend and I am awaiting my 1st Charing X appointment in the New Year. I have also saved up enough money to enable me to either have private T or surgery if I choose. I think the most important thing, though, is that I am ready to take my decision into my own hands instead of waiting for other people to do it for me.

[Mister]

On T 2 years, 2 months.  Post op top surg- 1 yr, 9 mo, hysto 1 yr, 3 mo, partial bottom surg 5 mo.  All legal stuff done (name change, DL, SSA, BC, passport, etc)

[Make_It_Good]

After being out for 2 years I was pretty much in the same place I started with.

Same. But the depression and frustration had dramtically increased.