What a year! What next people for 2013

[JulieC.]

I've had a long term plan going for some time so I hope I can keep to it.  For this year:
First I am going to work on my voice.  I bought a voice instruction program from Kathe Perez.  Wish me luck with that.  Second I am going to start laser on my face later in the year.  I'm excited for the changes this year will produce.

The good: 

Started HRT this year.

The Bad:  Nothing I can think of.

[JulieC.]

Ohh. Almost forgot...got my ears pierced (the good).  Big deal, right?  It was for me!

[peky]

Ok I have had a tremendous year, coming out FT and being accepted and feeling very good.

For once I have several projects on the table for next year both work and personal. All look good.

What are you going to do in 2013?

The good the bad and the ugly?

So far for your good Cindy, how about your bad and ugly?

[Cindy]

The bad and ugly for me are both personal in that I think I'm going to lose someone I love.

[spacial]

The bad and ugly for me are both personal in that I think I'm going to lose someone I love.

I cannot begin to tell you how much I feel for you now Cindy.

Take care love.

[aleon515]

I forgot another good-- I got a girl friend!
Jay

[peky]

The bad and ugly for me are both personal in that I think I'm going to lose someone I love.

That is a very though one, OOO

[JuneBug123]

The good: Came out full time and started HRT. Basically happy and doing well in school.

The bad: I'm sleeping on a couch.

The ugly: Having to fight my ex and my family every step of the way.

[Shana A]

During 2012, I returned to living full time as Z (had previously transitioned in 1993 and de-transitioned a year later), started electrolysis and HRT. There have been occasional minor difficulties, but mostly things are going better this time.

For 2013, I hope to continue progressing forward.

Wishing everyone well for being yourselves in the New Year!

Z

[HthrRsln]

The good?
    I finally accepted myself as trans this past July.
    I lost 65 pounds in six months.
    I have begun transition and HRT.
    I came out to my wife and we've amicably separated, which is for the best.
   
The Bad?
    I still need to come out to my grown kids, which is just tearing me up in anticipation.
    I desperately need to find employment that will support me in transition, I am working a job that pays well, but they will fire me if they learn I am transitioning.
    I am trying to do this broke and in debt, albeit with a relatively good income.
    I wasted over fifty years of my life trying desperately to be male, filled with self-loathing and guilt, painfully repressing who I really am.

The Ugly?
    My face, until I can get FFS (maybe not ugly for a male, but ...)

My goals for 2013:
    Find a job with one of the companies who scored 100% on the HRC.org CEI list
    Get FFS in about a year
    Go full time immediately thereafter
    Survive

Oh, and I have another Good that is in fact Great! I have posted about this separately, but just hours after I wrote this I found the nerve to come out to my younger son (21 years old) and he was TOTALLY supportive! He was way beyond wonderful! He read pages and pages of my writing about transsexualism, and my history with it, and his only concern was to ask what he could do to help, and hoping I would be okay. He said what I wrote was very clear and helpful and answered all the questions he could think of. This week he is going to meet with my gender therapist for an hour, just to meet her, and I thought, in case he has some questions he doesn't want to ask me.

I think this qualifies as at least GOOD! I am not exaggerating when I say it was one of the best days of my life, to have my son accept this with so much love and compassion.

Times like that make a parent very proud.

I am still giddy. 

[Constance]

The big thing for me is that the court date for my legal name & gender change is set for January 25. Assuming the change is granted, I'll then have a boat load of paperwork to do.

[bobbiesueram]

The Good: finding this board and my new friend Jill

The Bad: trying to find a way to come out to everyone.

The Ugly: me and the way I am and how to change it all.

2013: starting to explore the inter girl that has been locked up so many years.

[Maegan]

The good: Having my orchi at the end of the month. Yay!!!

The bad: I can not afford SRS yet.

The ugly: I can not afford SRS for at least another 3 years.

[Padma]

The Good: helping start an LGBT community choir
The Bad: inner meerkat
The Ugly: electrolysis face

[spacial]

While most people spend New Year's eve drinking and partying, some, here in the UK, regularly stay in to watch Jools Holland's Hootenanny.

It's an eclectic mix of live musical acts. Some well know, some not so, some unknown. But all, brilliant.

Anyway, this is an excerpt from the 2012-13 show. Each year, the broadcast lasts about 2 1/2 hours, each preformer does one song, though most come back later. It's never about a single act, even if that act is as big as Paul McCartney. (2008).

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For some reason it's not embedding. Hope you click on the link. It's worth it.

[Nero]

The Good: moving soon, going back to school, hopefully start "putting myself out there" more

The Bad: not sure where I'm moving too has much in the way of LGBT kind of stuff

The Ugly: getting my man-cherry popped (haven't been laid post-transition)

[Tessa James]

Cindy you are a wonderful role model, thank you.
2013 is going great.  I have started transitioning mtf with counseling and support.  I cam out en femme with friends and they are loving me still.  I am coming out to family slowly, its a big group and I fear telling my two adult kids most of all.  This feels like I have stepped off a cliff and found I do have wings.  I did a couple of weekend sessions learning paragliding years ago and this is the emotional equivalent.  Tessa takes off!

[FTMDiaries]

The Good:
- having come out at work to general acceptance and lack of weirdness.
- going on hormones sometime this year.
- regaining my independence.
- starting to like myself once again.
- being able to look in the mirror without crying. Eventually.
- realising that hubby has been taking me for a ride for many years, and putting my foot down to stop it.

The Bad:
- being forced to throw away 16 years of marriage against my will, simply because I need to be able to live in my own skin and he can't deal with what it's going to take for me to do so.
- my kids are embarrassed by me and want to separate from me because of it.

The Ugly:
- the custody battle for our kids, who are at that age when having a trans parent is one of the most embarrassing things that could ever happen to them, so there's no way they'll stay with me.

Hey! It looks like the good outnumbers both the bad and the ugly, so I must be doing something right. 😉