I always make a point to post when positive things are happening as well. Being transgendered is tough, and it is clear for me now that transitioning is the hardest thing I will ever do, so, there are downs, but there are ups too!
My parents are fine with me wearing female clothes inside their house. They are not using the correct pronouns, or changed how they call me, but now and then my mother has slip and called me daughter, though she denies it afterwards when questioned. This is a
definite step ahead from them wanting to kill my psychiatrist and do other horrible things. It is still very very tricky to talk with them about these issues, but they have not been prone to outbursts of violence anymore. One of my objectives in transition is to transition, but not lose my family, so this is important.
Since I won't be participating in the graduation ceremony for medic school and will do a private thing, I already began planning how it will go, and it seens nice. It always strikes me as so odd that I have a easy time making friends OUTSIDE of my class while in there things are so tough and there is so much bickering, I remember once posting about how I feel this is a bad situation for everyone in there, but anyway, out of there I have real friends who will go to my graduation and it will be cool. It will be better to be surrounded by people who really like me instead of people who would see me as a embarassament to their pompous ceremony.
I'm hitting the gym nearly daily and my body is really changing for the better. I'm soon going to take monthly measurements and I think I will see some good numbers. When I look at myself, I see quite cleary my hips look big when compared to everything else, and my waist is fairly slim as well. I'm getting some butt too! This is countering my large shoulders and I am developing a hour glass figure.
It is so cool!
Folks at the gym by the way, have no clue I am trans and they call me by my chosen name and all the stuff. I used to be nervous to use gym clothes, because they are tight and somewhat revealing of how your body shape is, but no one has given me odd looks.
