Beginning Transition

[JourneyFromConfusion]

Last Friday, I received my first testosterone shot. I was on the fence of how I felt for a while, but I'm feeling calm and almost rid of the irritability that hung over my head for months now. I finally feel like I'm moving somewhere in life, even if, down the road, I stop T. I'm on a low dosage bi-weekly to start. I'm still in therapy because I need to not only figure my gender identity out for sure, but also just to hopefully address my social anxiety and lack of ability to socialize.

But, the point of this post is to ask this: Were you all 100% sure you were ready for HRT? If not, what made you decide to "try" it with uncertainty?

[Blue Senpai]

I had no therapy of any kind but I'm 100% sure that this is the right decision. Granted, I have a ways to go to get my first shot (7 more weeks) but I've always felt like a boy but lack of knowledge led me to transition now. I heard of male-to-female but never the other way around so I thought they didn't exist and it wasn't possible. My mother wasn't that shocked hearing the news so I'm guessing she sort of had a feeling something was off about me when looking back at how I behaved when she took me shopping for clothes, how I reacted when they called me beautiful, how I fought tooth and nail with wearing make-up and how I was generally by myself in school with little to no friends or invitations to hang out.

[BeefxCake]

i was very ont he fence about it. i honestly didn't think i was super ready for it when i did go get it.

but to be honest it wasn't that i was scared it just felt unreal. and i think if i had actually been scared or super unsure i would have stopped myself. im the sort of person who hates commiting to things and hoenstly i'd never step foot on something like a roller coaster even if its promised ill be safe and fine.

so the fact i didn't back out of my first T shot i figured was just my subconsious' way of saying i was supposed to do this.

alsot eh first few days i was paranoid i'd wake up and have like super dramatic changes but once i figured out how slow everything was i calmed down.

[Kreuzfidel]

I was 100% sure from my earliest memories.  I always knew I was male.