Quote from: Deinewelt on April 24, 2015, 06:31:28 PM
Ah okay I understand now. The reason why I would opt to start out at community college or a 4 year state school, is that it is cheaper and can sometimes be covered completely by financial aid. Maybe if you start out at community college you can always transfer. Secondly, you could look for a part time job that may be able to allow you an opportunity to get an affordable place to stay. If you could somehow make all of those things + health insurance work, it might be doable. I'm sorry that these solutions are not perfect.
Maybe you need a better plan? If your family lets you stay with them for free or for very cheap, I would work full time and save money. Also, maybe you can start with a low dose HRT so as to keep it relatively non-obvious? You could start out by just blocking T. Then after you've saved a good amount, shift your time to school by starting part time. Get good grades and over time work less and do school more. This should allow you the lowest risk all together and will get you the best financial aid. Once things are more in full swing, use your part time income to find an inexpensive place to stay? Somebody chime in, Is this plan even workable? I honestly have no idea. I didn't even start HRT until 22 days ago and I am WAY out of school and have years of experience, attempting to transition in the workplace.
I wanted to transition when I was in my early 20's but I believed there was no way I could do it for a bunch of reasons. Mostly I just had no money and didn't think it would work well for me. Instead I just worked and when to school and worked more. Eventually the need to transition seriously caught up to me and I learned more about it.
Well honestly that's sort of what I've been doing, I had a job up until a few weeks ago (I quit due to a lot of issues within the company, I wasn't the only one who left). I had HRT for a while, but where I'm at now I doubt I would be able to get it. Getting it involves me getting a car to even reach anywhere where I could get it, which involves a huge amount of money that I need to save for transition. I already lived through public school as a boy and I hated every moment of it, the last thing I want to do is attend college as a boy...
I just don't know really what to do. I'm looking into college a bit but any trans-friendly universities are out of state so I would have an enormous amount of extra fees I'd have to pay for. It's just so frustrating how stuck I am. If I don't transition now I feel like I'll never do it, and even if I did later in life, the amount of time I will have missed out on that I could have had, had I only transitioned sooner, would just bother the heck out of me.
