"You're lucky..."

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TL;DR  post what you're lucky to have/thankful for, physically, that has helped your transition!

The other day my aesthetician who does my laser treatment on my legs/body said to me, "You're lucky".  How so now?  Well to have such fair skin, dark hair, and be so naturally unhairy, which is a huge boon in terms of getting rid of the bit of hair left on my body (as far as her area of practical concern lay, of course).  She was telling me how another client who just started transitioning is really hairy but they are red-headed and the laser isn't all that effective and they'll probably "have to wax".  Of course, I told her hair diminishes naturally over years when hormones are involved, but still... it made me think:  I am lucky in terms of body hair!  I've heard that statement before about this and that concerning my transition from different people who focus on different things (lucky for small hands, good skin, booty etc), but it's so easy to get caught up on what's NOT a home run physically that it sometimes overshadows what IS working!

So ladies and gentlemen:  Post what you feel you've been really lucky with in terms of living your true gender.  Bonus points for things you felt were embarrassing living with as your born sex, like high-pitch voice, small feet or gynecomastia.

Ex:  Did you have good hair with virtually no MPB?  Wide hips naturally?  No brow ridge to speak of?  Born petite (hi 5"4' club!)?  Maybe you feel transitioning at 16 made you "lucky"?!

Same with the men:  Perhaps flat-chested right through puberty?  Naturally hairy?  Already started with a booming, bassy voice?

List em up... what are you physically thankful for that works for you now?  How do you feel "lucky"?

[Dena]

While much of my body was a battle, My body hair was female norms, I have a very full head of hair and my facial hair wasn't real heavy. While I am big, I have a slim build with feminine muscles. Muscles were a real problem in grade school PE but I am happy now that i could never chin myself.

[Marlee]

I am blessed with very little brow ridge, a barely noticeable adams apple, and generally light body hair (a redhead)
Tho MPB did ht me hard and early

[Peep]

... i actually have nothing, I'm short, large breasted and have light body hair... pretty much a no hoper lol

[Sydney_NYC]

My hips are the one thing that I was teased at in PE class when changing in the locker room in high school with comments of having girly hips. I'm glad that paid off now. I had a somewhat feminine face prior to HRT with little brow bridge, high cheeks (native american ancestry), and a non visible Adam's apple. For my 6'7" height I have small feet and I had feminine hips prior to HRT. At first I thought I was too tall to transition, but now I enjoy being an extra tall girl. I've even been called an Amazon woman, LOL.

[Kayla88]

I am thankful for my small frame and girly face these days since accepting myself. I actually really hated it when I was presenting male as I never looked as though I was male really speaking (especially for my age). I could not even fit a Small Man's tops as they was always baggy on me, which looked bad (I refused to go kids sizes!!!!!). and I hated it so much.

I am a ginger so I don't really have body hair or if I do it is very light which I am grateful for these days.

[Toddin3D]

I'm thankful for my facial hair, specifically my goatee. It's actually pretty thin, but still thicker and longer than peach fuzz, so it's noticeable. I have to shave it every now and then to avoid weird looks but at least I know I'll be rocking it when I start getting on T. Surprisingly, I'm not too crazy about body hair, so...there's that.

I also have pretty broad shoulders, and a...wide frame? I guess? Can't think of the proper word for it, but simply put, I don't have a petite body or curves, so I'm grateful for that.

I used to have a pretty deep voice before hitting puberty. I used to be made fun of for that until my voice got inexplicably higher-pitched and more feminine by the time I hit 7th grade. I miss it. Hopefully I'll get it again though.

[iKate]

Height and general frame size. I'm slightly overweight, 5'6" and I can fit sizes 8-10 easily. I will lose some weight soon, just don't want to starve myself. I could get down to a 6 or possibly 4 if I wanted to.

[captains]

I have more resources than some, and parts of my transition will be easier for it. My health is good. I'm flexible and resilient, and that makes me tough. The tree that bends in the wind never breaks, yknow? So I feel lucky for all that.

[Deborah]

I'm lucky in the hair department with no baldness or thinning at all.  Really lucky I guess for 56 years old.  My profile pic is new with my own hair I have been growing out this year.

I also have very little body hair.  With HRT the body hair is virtually invisible.  Once when I was out running someone asked if I had shaved my legs when I hadn't touched them for months before.

My face isn't overtly masculine but not overtly feminine either.  It's something in between which is the one definite thing I knew about myself when I was really young.

What I lack is any self confidence at all to step out.  I need to work on that.


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[Pizzaparty78]

I'm pretty lucky for my somewhat masculine face, and my hair. The combination of them really square out my face so I pass almost 100% pre-t. I also have pretty thick leg hair, which is awesome. I'm also very lucky that my birth name is unisex, so at school when teachers read it, it doesn't out me as female. I'm pretty lucky I suppose, the worst thing is that I got my mom's chest, which is pretty big. Mine's not as big as hers though.

[Joanna Rei]

I have been pretty lucky so far in a lot of ways. Pre-HRT, I already had a small slim build of only 5'4" and 115 lbs, and a slight hourglass figure, although with visible ribs. I had grown out my hair a long time ago, so I already had long thick curly brown hair. I had never really tried to hide my transness or overcompensate by being an alpha male, so people had actually been asking me if I was trans before I accepted it myself. I've already mostly come out with hardly any negative reactions at all. My girlfriend accepted and supports me without any apprehension whatsoever. Now that I am on HRT I seem to be reacting to it pretty well in less than two months. I would classify myself as extremely lucky seeing as how bad we generally have it. It would probably be easier to list my trans problems actually, hopefully that's an indication of a better future for all of us.

[Traci New]

I am so lucky to be able to wake up every morning and look outside and think, its a new day, i am still here. I am 62 years of age and i dont take any meds at all.  So i am lucky to be in good  health. But i never smoked cigarettes. So many unlucky people die from smoking too early in life. I am lucky i make it to retirement. I am lucky to have been able to find myself.  I am lucky to be in good spirits as of late, i noticed this after i started taking hormones, my bad attitude seems to have faded away. I am lucky to have found a community to where i can relate to others of my kind.  Yes i mean Susan's Place. I am lucky to be content at this late time in life. Yes I am one of the lucky ones

[Miyuki]

I'm lucky for a lot of reasons. I'm lucky that I have a feminine voice/small Adam's Apple. I'm lucky that in spite of a little hair loss in the front, my hair is overall nice and thick. I'm lucky that I do have naturally wide hips, which actually look pretty good in spite of not having very much fat on them. I'm lucky that even though my facial hair was pretty thick in some places, it responded well to laser, so I'm not going to need to spends hundreds of hours having electrolysis done. Even so, it's hard to feel lucky about anything when you are transgender. Having physical attributes that lend themselves well to transitioning is better than nothing, but I would still much, much, much rather have been a cisgendered girl. I think what I'm really lucky about is realizing that I needed to transition before I ended up wasting my entire life trying to be something I never wanted to be in the first place.

[Jessie Ann]

I am lucky that I was able to finally come to terms with myself that I have been transgrender all my life. Lucky that I have a job that is accepting of my status and provides insurance that covers my counseling and HRT at little cost to me.  I was lucky that I didn't have much body hair and was blessed with femine facial features so I did not have to have all that much done to finish the feminization of my face.   I am really lucky that most of my family and friends have been ok with my transition.

[Northern Jane]

"Lucky"? Lucky is a relative term. Luck would have been NOT being TS! But, if it had to happen to me, I guess I was "lucky" in many ways.

As a child I definitely fit with the girls, thought I was one, and was often mistaken for one.

When "gender segregation" started early in school, I didn't fit with the boys at all. Some figured I was just Gay and others just referred to me as "it" because I was too girly to be a boy and yet that is what I was supposed to be.

I guess I was "lucky" because I never thought of myself as a boy and couldn't even pretend to be one so my only hope for the future was to be a girl. In the 1960s, I was "lucky" for being so obviously wrong-gendered and that made is easier to find treatment. ("Easier" is also a relative term because it was damned difficult to find understanding doctors in the 1960s.)

I was "lucky" that my body didn't masculinize much at puberty and I retained a lot of childlike features.

I was "lucky" that I was pretty and much more attractive as a girl than I would ever have been as a guy.

I was "lucky" that there was never any question where/what I was supposed to be and I moved directly into stealth right after SRS and spent m first summer around the pool and having a hellofa good time!

[ChiGirl]

I like this thread. It's very positive and self-affirming.  I'm lucky, I don't have a prominent Adam's Apple or a severe brow ridge.  Mainly, I'm lucky to have resources, financial and social. I can afford to transition and I have the support of family and friends. 

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[kittenpower]

I'm lucky to have a full head of hair, and I didn't have any body hair prior to transition, and not much facial hair, and very little hair on my arms and legs.  I'm also lucky to have a "baby face", and have always looked younger than my age. And I'm lucky in love

[stephaniec]

I'm lucky to be alive and on HRT

[LizK]

I have wondered about this myself and to that end I have posted twice in the picture threads asking for opinions and I have never received any apart from a lovely one from one of the Mods but even still it was a diplomatic comment. So I guess that tells me all I need to know about my ability to feminise...pretty much none...but having said that I realised that it changes nothing for me and won't stop me transitioning. What I am lucky to have is inner strength and the ability to weather a personal storm where others may succumb.

I think I have a few lucky attributes despite lack of any confirmation I think I have nice eyes, little body hair, MPB but thick and no longer receding (might be able to do something with that), good height, once I lose a little more weight I will have figure with good proportions, my "girl" walk is very natural and hard to pick from other women, I have small hands and feet...so I guess its not all bad...got to do something to help my face so I hope some HRT may take the hardness out of it and the rest will be down to self confidence.