How long were you on HRT before you went full time?

[TSJasmine]

A year? 6 months? Immediately? Years before? I'm curious!

[Jessica Merriman]

I went full time before HRT! I just jumped in the deep end of the pool. My Therapy team usually does not give letters until the client presents, so I presented and just never wanted to go back. I went full time my first day of presenting and it was so nice! Eases confusion of going back and forth for me.

[Sydney_NYC]

3 1/2 months on HRT, I went full time after getting male fail.

[gabimoneratt]

I went full time 3 months after starting HRT. By this time I was already going to my therapist for over a year and I just knew I had to move forward... I was super scared but things went well and I felt much better funny enough,  the week I went full time things started happening in my life. I went full time on a Tuesday. Wednesday night I found out I got accepted in my university, thursday I had my last consultation before my rhinoplasty, friday I enrolled and monday morning I was off to my first day of classes. It was pretty intense haha 

[Jenna Marie]

4 months. I'd planned to wait at least to six months, but facial changes and breast development (I was 42C at that point) outed me to my boss at work and I gave up and advanced the plans. I was sometimes having trouble passing as male by 3 months in, anyway.

[mrs izzy]

5 years

[missymay]

5 years

Hey, me too

[Jessica-Louise]

I started presenting as female in public four months before I started HRT. I went full-time 11 days after starting HRT which is the same day that I got my first women's haircut and ditched the wigs. I realised today that I probably mostly pass now... until I have to say more than "hey" or "thanks" or something and then it's still hard but I'm getting there.

[Jennygirl]

Starting out I was planning on it taking 10 months, but due to support of friends and family it dropped to 2 months. Just sorta realized it one day!

[Jill F]

2 months on a low dose of E only. 

I began to feel so wrong having to dress like a guy when running errands or going out that I asked myself why in the world I was still doing that.  I was going out at night at that point anyway, but when I realized that I was just doing boy mode to appease what I perceived to be society's expectations of me (I don't have kids or work outside the home), I pretty much immediately stopped caring about what other people thought of me and lived geniunely as myself from then on.  Plus my nipples were REALLY sticking out.  Hey, when you're more comfy in women's clothes in public and feel ridiculous in guy/andro clothes, it's totally over.

[Jessica-Louise]

Hey, when you're more comfy in women's clothes in public and feel ridiculous in guy/andro clothes, it's totally over.

Yeah, totally! Once I'd told everyone that I was transitioning I was always worried that someone I knew would see me dressed as a guy and I'd feel humiliated... so I guess the fear of being seen pretending to be a man became bigger than the worry that someone might perceive me as a man dressed as a woman.

[liz]

Well, when women jeans became more comfortable than men ones and I needed to wear bra not to cry because of boobs rubbing on my tops.

[AnneB]

Actually, a year.. I was on herbals Oct '13 to June '14, then switched to drug hormones, about a month ago, I got my first wig, and THAT finally I was able to see my real reflection.  mostly FT, just not at work.  But since I've been off work since Oct 20th, I am full-time now... not sure when I go back (currently in limbo thanks to a  #%$(^  %#%$  $*^ cousin who f'ed up my career)  When I do, I will be 100% FT.. already changed drivers lic, Co. ID, name and pic.

so.. short answer.. 5 mos on real HRT and I'm FT now.  My voice, hasn't caught up yet.  But I get gendered female almost always, clothes, hair (really good  wigs , profile pic), mannerisms..

[Delsorou]

Seven months give or take.

[Tessa James]

about 3 months prior to HRT

[big kim]

21 months though I got  male fail as I'd had a lot of electrolysis and had long dyed red permed hair.Ideally I'd have liked to finish electrolysis and felt Charing Cross pushed me into full time sooner than I liked but it all worked out OK

[amber roskamp]

im not full time yet, nor have I started hormones or laser hair removal, but this is a really interesting topic. I should be starting hormones this winter and I am almost to the point where I have enough money to start lasers, but ne ways the plan is to live full time in six months or so after I start hrt.

i really think this is a interesting topic thanks for posting this jasmine

[stephaniec]

I guess  I'm full  time about 7  months in

[Jaime R D]

 a bit over two years before I went fulltime.  by then, most people that I was around a lot had figured it out, so it made things a bit easier as far as coming out.

[Mariah]

About 2 and a half months before HRT.