PATIENCE, young ones.
I know it's more or less useless to say this, because when you're in a place where you're desperate for feminizing changes, desperate for your appearance to become feminine enough so that you can just be done with transition and go and live your life, saying "be patient, it gets better" means nothing because you want it NOW.
But don't worry. Almost EVERYONE hits this 5-month brick wall where the excitement from the initial changes has worn off, and you feel like absolutely NOTHING is changing.
Trust me. I went through it too. But things are indeed changing. Give it time.
This is NOT a quick process. I waited past the 6 month mark. I waited past the 1-year mark. I didn't even get my first female gendering until right at that one-year mark. After that, it took me until the 16-month mark on hormones before I was finally getting gendered female enough to go full-time with any degree of hope that I was passable enough. I still wasn't. I still looked mannish. For another 6 months after that I was still battling against an appearance that was still mannish, that was still getting me stared at by random people on the streets because they couldn't tell what gender I was. It took until almost the 2-year mark on hormones before I FINALLY started seeing a girl in the mirror consistently, and finally reached the point of self-confidence where I knew I was passable enough to just live my life without worrying about being clocked.
It takes time. For some of us, it takes a VERY long time. But have faith. It really is a marathon, and now at the end, I can tell you that it really is worth being patient and just letting it happen. And this is coming from someone who was fired from two jobs due to gender dysphoria, and went through several horrible depressive spells of "I've ruined my life, and for WHAT? I'm still not a girl and I never will be." It's all worth it in the end. Just be patient, let the hormones do their thing, and soon enough you'll look back and wonder what you were ever worried about.
