I think the most i portant aspect to any transition is to take it at ones own comfortable pace! I get some people take time to transition, as we all do. Each of us stands in our own unique positions. For me, there really was no other option then full time. Sometimes i get misgendered as a male, but im still young into HRT, and basicly dove into it, like I do everything in life. Its a different perspective then slowly transitioning, in so many ways, and is a hell of a challenge. Mostly, people prolly think Im a soft butch lesbian. Which, is kind of true anyways, so hey lol. Im very femme in my actions, and approach to people amd situations. But Im very jeans and t shirt type kind of woman. No male clothes though, but at this stage my hair is still growing, and i need facial hair removal. If i were to give a pass ratio right now, Id say its 60/40, which while not the most comfortable, is slowly getting there to all the time status. Im just waiting on my new birth cert to arrive, really. Some people would say I took this really fast, some could say its a RLE mixed with HRT. I just look at it like high speed transition, really. To me, slowly doing so would have been torture, I have waited not only long enough putting this off, but work wise, i work with the mentally challenged. So to slowly become a woman in front of the eyes of the clients I care for every day would be detrimental to my job. As far as home/ social life, I look at it like an awkward phase where its akin to puberty. I mean, thats what HRT is right? But to slowly trickle into a female role would have felt odd, to me. I would rather people approach me with that 40% androgynous, 60% female then 100% male when it comes to appearance and interaction. I just felt to be taken serious in this with the conservative family we have, my wife and me needed to dive into this in full, which we did, and its all for the better. We both had high anxiety over how we would be treated in this, and those fears are all but gone now, minus o ly two family members. We arent complaining, it was def easier in most regards then we thought, asside from a slight embaressment at the secretary of state office on my attempt to get my liscence without knowing the proper procedure. They wanted a birth cert over a notarized physicians letter, so they are getting it lol. They deny fixing my gender marker once that arrives, its a lawsuit. But i am rambling on. I think in the end there are sooo many factors in each individuals life, that transition needs to mirror and balance out with those needs accordingly, otherwise it is itself detrimental to its sole purpose, and that is to smoothly intergrate into society as the right gender.
