Ten to twelve months is quite a long time to wait for HRT, but try to keep things in perspective. I paid my own way and started HRT almost seven months after my initial phone call to the therapist.
I did have the advantage of top surgery within a year of that call. But by then, I had had the pleasure of spending something like twenty thousand dollars on therapy, endo, and top surgery. I was lucky to have the money; my insurance didn't cover any of it. I have known guys in the U.S who have gone a decade or more without top surgery because it took them that long to save up. If you are using Canada's health care system, you can at least be grateful to have most of your expenses covered. Two years for the whole kit and caboodle, and for much less money--well, it could be much worse.
I'm not minimizing the agony, by the way--just offering a different way to look at it. And I know that it's sort of like saying, "Your problems aren't so bad--children are starving in Bangladesh!" Yeah, that's not too helpful. But if you can look at other people in transition who manage to keep going and saving for several years, maybe you can find two years a little less horrible. Maybe not right now when the wound is still fresh and you are still a bit in shock. But maybe a couple of weeks from now. Whatever, just keep on trucking. You will get there.
