One thing I didn't mention and I think it is important.
Start thinking of how you will live your life.
It is very easy to 'want' to be a woman FT but the practicalities are different.
I use this in therapy sessions I give. They are deliberately sexist and confrontational.
So you want to go go FT?
Every morning you will have to do your make up, otherwise you will look like crap.
If you look like crap that is how you will be treated
Every day you will wear your wig or do your hair, not just forget about it
Every day you will decide what to wear so you look good.
There is no more dirty jeans sloppy T and unshaven face.
Guys will check you out and chat you up. How will you deal with it?
Guys will look at your legs openly and not look away.
Guys will talk to your boobs and try to look down your top,
How will you feel?
You will have NO male privilege, do you know what that means?
Woman will treat you as a woman. Do you know what that means?
You will be unsafe in your everyday environment, how will that affect you?
You will lose your upper body strength. Do you know what that means?
Are you realising you will lock yourself in the car and call for roadside assistance?
The list goes on and please I use the questions to provoke discussion. There is of course a massive spectrum of how we are. But in those sessions I am after the client understanding how life can change and there is no 'guy in a dress' stuff. You are a woman. How will you deal with it when I hormonally reassign you.
Because life does change and we cannot predict how it changes for any individual.
Cindy
