Hi there, I'm Sophia.
I've been living as a woman now for 1.5 years, and have known about this forum since about the beginning, but for some reason now I feel drawn to making myself a little presence here.
To be exact I've been living as a woman for 1.5 years, and on hormones for almost 3 months (I didn't do an official real life test though! My "real life experience" was spontaneous and voluntary). Hormones have been SO amazing for me. I consider them second in importance only to food, water, and air.
Actually, I felt a bit of doubt still until about 2 weeks after beginning HRT. Then it was like a revelation. I had a few days of euphoria, this amazing sense of peace, and then I knew right down to my bones that this was who I am.
As I was a writer even before all this, I've taken to writing a lot about my experience in my blog and even getting into some activism-type stuff. I've also started doing talks in real life.
It frustrates me that trans issues have become such a big part of my identity, as I see my being a woman as a pretty small thing really and just wish that society would agree with me on that. But I see how much of an impact I'm making with my talks, which makes me grudgingly agree to keep doing them.
By the way, I don't know if many people here live in Europe/Spain, but it might be of interest that I get my hormones from a clinic called Transit in Barcelona, which is revolutionary in that it places no real barriers to getting hormones; you can get them after just one visit, even if you're genderqueer or some other variation of transgender which the medical community still hasn't come to terms with.
I am SO indebted to them. If they hadn't been there I don't know how much longer I would have had to wait. Surely one or two years, maybe more. Especially now that I know how incredibly important hormones are for me, spending so much time without treatment seems positively an attack on my basic human rights.
Apart from that, well, I live in the queer capital of Europe - Berlin, and used to live in Barcelona (which I visit now every 3 months for a checkup and more pills). I'm bisexual and live with a gorgeous genderqueer partner who makes me happy every single day. I juggle my transgender journey with trying to make it as a writer and am pretty radically nonconformist in general. Now many people see me as just "the trans person" but I'm also vegan, polyamorous, an Esperanto speaker, an Unschooling advocate, an indigo adult (i.e. indigo child but no longer a child), a feminist, a lucid dreamer, and many other things.
Nice to make your acquaintence
